Comments on: The “Book” Controls of wxPython (Part 1 of 2)

By: MrC

MrC — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:25:47 +0000

Ok- going back to my previous post...
Since the two widgets you've created show up when you click on any tab (aka common to all), how do you go about putting widgets that only show up when click on on tab (aka unique to that tab)?

If you put some text into the widgets that you've created
txtOne = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, "First")
txtTwo = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, "Second")

You will see that text no matter which tab you click on.
I'm interested in seeing how you put widgets so that a different widget is visible when you click on each tab.

By: driscollis

driscollis — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:02:49 +0000

No. I thought you were saying that you wanted to put widgets on the tab headers (the part the user clicks on to switch tabs). Of course you can put widgets on the pages themselves.

- Mike

By: MrC

MrC — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:41:50 +0000

“s for putting widgets onto the tabs themselves, you'd probably need to draw them yourself or use one of Andrea Gavana's notebooks: FlatNotebook or his AuiNotebook.”
Wait – the while point behind using tabs is so that when you click on them, something different is displayed on each tab. Are you telling me that the stock notebook widgets can't even do that?

By: driscollis

driscollis — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:08:40 +0000

That makes sense. I probably should have made the class and function names more unique. Sorry about that!

- Mike

By: MrC

MrC — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:04:04 +0000

Sorry- I was reading “The Amazing FlatNotebook” when I posted that msg.
There is no “change” events in that tutorial.

I hadn't seen the Tutorial for the wx.Notebook.

By: MrC

MrC — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:57:14 +0000

Put some text in the text widgets
txtOne = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, "First")
txtTwo = wx.TextCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY, "Second")

You will see the same text no matter which tab you click on.
These 2 widgets are "common" to all three tabs.

I would like to know how you put different widgets on each of the tabs, so you only see the widgets for Tab 1 when you click on Tab 1, etc.

By: driscollis

driscollis — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:49:06 +0000

Hi,

Did you actually read the code? Lines 54 and 55 of "notebookDemo.py" show the following bindings:

self.Bind(wx.EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED, self.OnPageChanged)
self.Bind(wx.EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGING, self.OnPageChanging)

Where "self" is a wx.Notebook. As for putting widgets onto the tabs themselves, you'd probably need to draw them yourself or use one of Andrea Gavana's notebooks: FlatNotebook or his AuiNotebook.

- Mike

By: driscollis

driscollis — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:41:59 +0000

Tabs one, two and three in the demo are completely different. What are you talking about? You can import and use any of the panelX.py files and use them…

- Mike

By: driscollis

driscollis — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:39:13 +0000

The code is in the download at the end of the article. I didn't show all my code since I put it in the source. Thanks,

- Mike

By: MrC

MrC — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:36:19 +0000

Mike

The two text widgets you've created in class TabPanel, are
common to all the tabs.

This somewhat defeats the purpose of a program having a tabbed notebook. Typically, each tab will have different functionality from the other tabs.

Would you add some examples that show how to add widgets that are different for each tab?

thanks