wxPython: "Nesting" wx.NoteBooks?

[Piet]

Hi,
I am trying to generate an "hierarchical" layout based on
wx.NoteBooks. That means, every page of a Notebook should be a
NoteBookon its own. Here is a (short but complicated) piece of code
that I put together to see whether it works:

import wx
#____________________________

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self,parent,id,title):
self.dirname=''
wx.Frame.__init__(self,parent,-4, title,
style=wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE)
self.Notebook =
wx.Notebook(self,-1,wx.DefaultPosition,wx.DefaultSize,wx.NB_TOP)
self.panels = []
self.SubNoteBooks = []

for panelNumber in range(3):
self.panels.append(wx.Panel(self.Notebook,-1))
self.Notebook.AddPage(self.panels[panelNumber],"Tab"+str(panelNumber))#
self.SubNoteBooks.append(wx.Notebook(self.panels[panelNumber],-1,wx.DefaultPosition,wx.DefaultSize,wx.NB_TOP))
self.SubNoteBooks[panelNumber].subPanels = []
for subPanelNumber in range(3):
self.SubNoteBooks[panelNumber].subPanels.append(wx.Panel(self.SubNoteBooks[panelNumber],-1))
self.SubNoteBooks[panelNumber].AddPage(self.SubNoteBooks[panelNumber].subPanels[subPanelNumber],"Subtab"+str(panelNumber)+str(subPanelNumber))

app = wx.PySimpleApp()
frame = MainWindow(None, -1, "MultiTabControl")
frame.Show(1)
app.MainLoop()

However, what I get is only the "first level", i.e. a normal NoteBook
with three tabs. Is it possible to get the "second level tabs"
working?
Many thanks in advance
Piet

[Jeff Epler]

If you can find a serious User Interface Guide that recommends nesting
Notebook-type widgets, I'll try to help you answer this question.

It's nice that what you're asking for is apparently hard to provide,
because users will hate it, or else fail entirely to grasp what is going
on.

Jeff

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[Josiah Carlson]

> However, what I get is only the "first level", i.e. a normal NoteBook

with three tabs. Is it possible to get the "second level tabs"
working?

Though it is ugly, yes, it can be done. Nearly anything can be done
with wxPython, you just need to structure it correctly.

import wx
#____________________________

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self,parent,id,title):
self.dirname=''
wx.Frame.__init__(self,parent,-4, title,
style=wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE)
self.Notebook =
wx.Notebook(self,-1,wx.DefaultPosition,wx.DefaultSize,wx.NB_TOP)
self.SubNoteBooks = []

for subnotebook in xrange(3):
self.SubNoteBooks.append(wx.Notebook(self.Notebook , -1))
self.Notebook.AddPage(self.SubNoteBooks[-1],
'Tab %i'%subnotebook)
for i in xrange(3):
self.SubNoteBooks[-1].AddPage(wx.Panel(
self.SubNoteBooks[-1], -1),
'SubTab %i %i'%(subnotebook,i))

app = wx.PySimpleApp()
frame = MainWindow(None, -1, "MultiTabControl")
frame.Show(1)
app.MainLoop()

[Piet]

jc******@uci.edu (Josiah Carlson) wrote in message news:<88**************************@posting.google. com>...

However, what I get is only the "first level", i.e. a normal NoteBook
with three tabs. Is it possible to get the "second level tabs"
working?

Though it is ugly, yes, it can be done. Nearly anything can be done
with wxPython, you just need to structure it correctly.

import wx
#____________________________

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self,parent,id,title):
self.dirname=''
wx.Frame.__init__(self,parent,-4, title,
style=wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE)
self.Notebook =
wx.Notebook(self,-1,wx.DefaultPosition,wx.DefaultSize,wx.NB_TOP)
self.SubNoteBooks = []

for subnotebook in xrange(3):
self.SubNoteBooks.append(wx.Notebook(self.Notebook , -1))
self.Notebook.AddPage(self.SubNoteBooks[-1],
'Tab %i'%subnotebook)
for i in xrange(3):
self.SubNoteBooks[-1].AddPage(wx.Panel(
self.SubNoteBooks[-1], -1),
'SubTab %i %i'%(subnotebook,i))

app = wx.PySimpleApp()
frame = MainWindow(None, -1, "MultiTabControl")
frame.Show(1)
app.MainLoop()

Thanks, Josiah. It took me some time to figure out how to put
something on a notebook panel (i.e. in which order the wx.Notebook and
the panel have to be created and which is the child of what), so
leaving out the panel for the "1st level notebooks" would habe
probably the last thing I would have tried.
Piet