[PMW] Rename a notebook's page - how?

[F. GEIGER]

"Martin Franklin" <mfranklin1 at gatwick.westerngeco.slb.com> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:mailman.1064951083.18012.python-list at python.org...
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 17:59, F. GEIGER wrote:
> > Thank you Martin,
> >
> > but I've still troubles, because the tab has the new name now, but the
page
> > is in PMW still known with the old name.
> >
> > I see this because I've registered for the raisecommand event:
> >
> >    def _onSelect_(self, pageName):
> >       Proxy.DataProxy().containerSelect(pageName)
> >       return
> >
> > And here pageName is the old name despite the fact that the new name is
> > displayed on the tab.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Franz GEIGER
> >
> >
> > "Martin Franklin" <mfranklin1 at gatwick.westerngeco.slb.com> schrieb im
> > Newsbeitrag news:mailman.1064934294.5084.python-list at python.org...
> > > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 14:49, F. GEIGER wrote:
> > > > Hi again,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to rename a page of a notebook. Deleting the page and
adding a
> > new
> > > > one is not really an option, because the page is filled with other
> > controls
> > > > already. So I looked into Pmw.Notebook. There are quite a few lists
and
> > > > dicts which were to be changed and I wasn't successful in the first
try.
> > > >
> > > > However, if nobody has ever done this, I'd have to rebuild the whole
> > page
> > > > after deleting/adding. I really hope there's an other way to go.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards
> > > > Franz GEIGER
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > You need to get hold of the "tab" widget and change it's text.
> > >
> > > nb = Pmw.NoteBook(root)
> > > nb.pack()
> > >
> > >
> > > nb.add("Page1")
> > > nb.add("Page2")
> > > nb.add("Page3")
> > >
> > >
> > > tab = nb.tab("Page1")
> > > tab["text"]= "Martin1"
> > >
>
>
> I've been trying to 'get round' this..... without much success
> internally the NoteBook keeps track of it's pages using both a list of
> names and a dictionary of name : page attributes
>
> so I thought you could mess around with these...
>
>     notebook._pageAttrs[newname] = notebook._pageAttrs[oldname]
>     notebook.tab(oldname)["text"]=newname
>     notebook._pageNames[index]=newname
>     del notebook._pageAttrs[oldname]
>
> However when you try to raise your newly renamed page it fails :-(
> because the callback that lifts the page to the top has the page name
> stuck in it like so:
>
>         if self._withTabs:
>             # Create the button for the tab.
>             def raiseThisPage(self = self, pageName = pageName):
>                 self.selectpage(pageName)
>             tabOptions['command'] = raiseThisPage
>
>
> Where pageName is the name given at the time the page was created
> (the above code is from the insert method in PmwNotebook)
>
> So you would have to do quite a lot of messing around....
> replacing the above callback with your own at least...  This is where I
> stopped trying...

Many thanks for your effort, Martin!

>
> So in order to keep it simple I would (in your own code) keep a
> dictionary  of old vs new page names or something simple like that.
> So you above method would look something like this:-
>
>
> def _onSelect_(self, pageName):
>     realPageName = self.myPageDict[pageName]
>     Proxy.DataProxy().containerSelect(realPageName)
>     return
>


That's a good idea! I'll go for that.


>
>
> Or failing that convert the pageName into a page index (an integer)
> using the notebook.index(pageName) method.
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>


Many thanks again and kind regards
Franz GEIGER


>
> P.S  Most people on this list do not top post.  (I'm not saying this is
> good _or_ bad ;-)
>
>
> --
> Martin Franklin <mfranklin1 at gatwick.westerngeco.slb.com>
>
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