Is it possible to turn off Internet Explorer Compatibility View in Qt QAxWidget?

Question

I'm using QAxWidget to show pages trough Internet Explorer 11, and it is showing me all the pages in the "compatibility view", although they aren't set in the Internet Explorer itself.

Is it possible to turn that off, and to have the component to display pages in "normal" mode, i.e. to have underlying Internet Explorer 11 sign itself as Firefox as it does when it's started normally (i.e. not trough QAxWidget / ActiveX Control )

Thanks! Dushan

Answer 1

You obviously need to access IE object model and tweak the mode programmatically. For that you want to start learning IE API.

Also, I made my Qt project to interface with RDP, you can do similar thing to for IE11.

In your project file TYPELIBS = $$PWD/rdp/mstscax.dll // replace with the path to your typelibrary. Then you will need to include the resulting header file to your project as well as .cpp one. Then you will probably have other problems better to discuss separately. Or you can look at Qt dumpcpp docs which does the import of typelibrary.