[wxPython-users] AUI Notebook question

[Frank Niessink]

Hi Lexy-lou,

2007/12/14, lexy-lou at doyenne.com <lexy-lou at doyenne.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an AUI Notebook (whee! :). Each tab essentially shows a different
> facet of a selected object in the user's library. I thought it would be
> Rilly Cool(tm) if I could bind the left and right arrows to move
> sequentially through the tabs.

The regular wx.Notebook class has a method AdvanceSelection, but
unfortunately AUINotebook does not. Here's my implementation of it:

class MyAuiNotebook(wx.aui.AuiNotebook):
    def AdvanceSelection(self, forward=True):
        ''' This method is part of the Notebook API but missing from the
            AuiNotebook API. '''
        if self.PageCount <= 1:
            return # Not enough viewers to advance selection
        if forward:
            if 0 <= self.Selection < self.PageCount - 1:
                self.Selection += 1
            else:
                self.Selection = 0
        else:
            if 1 <= self.Selection < self.PageCount:
                self.Selection -= 1
            else:
                self.Selection = self.PageCount - 1

Next bind the keys you want to this method, for example by using two
menu items with keyboard shortcuts (one for moving forward and one for
backward).

Cheers, Frank