Support LTR and RTL text directions in input fields

Implement WebActions to temporarily change text direction directly from
context menu - like Chrome does. They only work for the selected input
field. Omit the "default" option since it is always grayed out in Chrome.

Task-number: QTWB-67
Change-Id: I4bacbd82c6bd7261ac465eec9da3776613f98074
Reviewed-by: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/webenginequick/api/qquickwebengineview.cpp b/src/webenginequick/api/qquickwebengineview.cpp
index 5728472a7..2d49c9419 100644
--- a/src/webenginequick/api/qquickwebengineview.cpp
+++ b/src/webenginequick/api/qquickwebengineview.cpp
@@ -1969,6 +1969,12 @@ void QQuickWebEngineView::triggerWebAction(WebAction action)
     case InsertUnorderedList:
         runJavaScript(QStringLiteral("document.execCommand('insertUnorderedList');"), QWebEngineScript::ApplicationWorld);
         break;
+    case ChangeTextDirectionLTR:
+        d->adapter->changeTextDirection(true /*left to right*/);
+        break;
+    case ChangeTextDirectionRTL:
+        d->adapter->changeTextDirection(false /*left to right*/);
+        break;
     default:
         Q_UNREACHABLE();
     }
@@ -2144,6 +2150,12 @@ QQuickWebEngineAction *QQuickWebEngineView::action(WebAction action)
     case InsertUnorderedList:
         text = tr("Insert &Unordered List");
         break;
+    case ChangeTextDirectionLTR:
+        text = tr("Change text direction left to right");
+        break;
+    case ChangeTextDirectionRTL:
+        text = tr("Change text direction right to left");
+        break;
     case NoWebAction:
     case WebActionCount:
         Q_UNREACHABLE();