I was recently working on a GUI application that had a wx.Notebook in it. When the user changed tabs in the notebook, I wanted the application to do an update based on the newly shown (i.e. selected) tab. I quickly discovered that while it is easy to catch the tab change event, getting the right tab is not as obvious.
This article will walk you through my mistake and show you two solutions to the issue.
Here is an example of what I did originally:
# simple_note.py
import random
import wx
class TabPanel(wx.Panel):
def __init__(self, parent, name):
""""""
super().__init__(parent=parent)
self.name = name
colors = ["red", "blue", "gray", "yellow", "green"]
self.SetBackgroundColour(random.choice(colors))
btn = wx.Button(self, label="Press Me")
sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
sizer.Add(btn, 0, wx.ALL, 10)
self.SetSizer(sizer)
class DemoFrame(wx.Frame):
"""
Frame that holds all other widgets
"""
def __init__(self):
"""Constructor"""
super().__init__(None, wx.ID_ANY,
"Notebook Tutorial",
size=(600,400)
)
panel = wx.Panel(self)
self.notebook = wx.Notebook(panel)
self.notebook.Bind(wx.EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED, self.on_tab_change)
tabOne = TabPanel(self.notebook, name='Tab 1')
self.notebook.AddPage(tabOne, "Tab 1")
tabTwo = TabPanel(self.notebook, name='Tab 2')
self.notebook.AddPage(tabTwo, "Tab 2")
sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
sizer.Add(self.notebook, 1, wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, 5)
panel.SetSizer(sizer)
self.Layout()
self.Show()
def on_tab_change(self, event):
# Works on Windows and Linux, but not Mac
current_page = self.notebook.GetCurrentPage()
print(current_page.name)
event.Skip()
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = wx.App(False)
frame = DemoFrame()
app.MainLoop()
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