Making an OBS plugin that creates an efficient HTML UI dock?

[dcmouser]

I'm not sure I will do a great job of asking this, but I'd like to build a c++ based OBS plugin that creates a new UI dock whose output is generated from html but updated efficiently with new data.

I can already build a c++ OBS plugin which creates a new UI dock, but I don't have enough experience with OBS/QT to know how to make a plugin create a UI dock window whose output is html based, and which can be updated in some more efficient way than re-rendering the entire html each time it needs to be updates (imagine every frame having to update some numbers on the page based on calculation in the c++ plugin code, rather than purely through js).

Does anyone have any example of something like this existing already or have any pointer?

Thanks in advance!
-jesse

 

[dodgepong]

I'm confused, why does the dock need to render its UI with HTML? Why not use Qt UI controls?

 

[dcmouser]

It doesn't have to, but Im interested in this possibility; using a QT html component would work though. Maybe I need to look into ways to efficiently update the content of such qt html components. I don't know if that's the best way to go.

One motivation for this is that I essentially would like to handle most of the work using js in a ui browser dock, but i want full access to the full c++ plugin system.