Can Flare output to QT?

[photolesa]

We use Flare to create HTML Help (CHM files) available in our proprietary software that's written in QT and C++. We'd also like to see if there's a way to output something from Flare that can integrate with C++ code. We're trying to figure out a way to have our code grab some brief sections of the Help content (CHM files) to display in a GUI panel created with QT. Not sure if that makes sense as I'm the tech writer not the engineer

[Feebeegeebee]

Hi Lesa,
I'm using Flare 12 and outputting to HTML5.
I am currently working on a help system for a new product that is created in C++ and QT.
My main help project is still available to the user as a searchable resource on the product, but parts of this help output are also being integrated directly into this new product in a kind of "show the help for this dialog" way.

To do this, the s/w developer is currently just loading individual pages from the HTML5 output into the QT Widget. This doesn't recognise any of the hierarchy of the main help, so forget breadcrumbs, "open topic with navigation" links, etc.
There are some other issues, as some of the newer, funky HTML5 elements are not rendered correctly by QT, so forget using things like expanding text, etc. It takes a bit of tweaking to make sure pages render correctly.

This link will show you the HTML tags that are supported by QT 4.8 (I think there are later QT versions):
http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/richtext-html-subset.html

I don't know if that is of any help at all, but good luck.
Regards,
Feebeegeebee

[photolesa]

Thank you so much for this info! I'll circle back to the dev team and see what they say. Thank you again!