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Groguard
Groguard

Reputation: 13

Python 3 Tkinter notebook tabid. How to return the text of all tabs instead of the number ids?

Hey guys I've been learning about Tkinter and making some GUI apps. I'm experimenting with the notebook widget and I'm stuck at one spot. I was wondering if there is a way to use a for loop for all of the current tabs and return the text names of all the tabs instead of the number id. I would like to use it to keep track of the frames. I have searched around and found out how to show tab text for the current tab but I need all the tabs. I haven't been able to find anything specifically for that. Let me know if you have an idea. Thanks.

[EDIT] Code snippet

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import messagebox
from tkinter.scrolledtext import ScrolledText
from tkinter import ttk


class Window(Frame):
    def __init__(self, master):
        Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.master = master
        self.init_window()
        self.second_window()
        self.pm_tabs = []

    def init_window(self):# Builds the UI for the main window

        self.n = ttk.Notebook(root)

        self.get_tabs_button = Button(self.textboxframe,
                                      width=20,
                                      text='Get Tab Names',
                                      command=lambda:self.get_tab_names())
        self.get_tabs_button.grid(row = 0,
                                  column= 1,
                                  padx=(5,5),
                                  pady=(5,150),
                                  sticky=N+S+E+W)

        self.n.add(self.textboxframe, text='Chat')
        self.n.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky=N+S+E+W)

    def second_window(self):# UI for second window

        self.get_tabs_button = Button(self.textboxframe,
                                      width=20,
                                      text='Get Tab Names',
                                      command=lambda:self.get_tab_names())
        self.get_tabs_button.grid(row = 0,
                                  column= 1,
                                  padx=(5,5),
                                  pady=(5,150),
                                  sticky=N+S+E+W)
        self.n.add(self.textboxframe, text='Second')

    def get_tab_names(self): # get the names of the tabs. Hoping to get the text names of the tab.
        for tabs in self.n.tabs():
            print(tabs)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    root = Tk()
    app = Window(root)
    root.mainloop()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4555

Answers (1)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 386010

According to the official documentation, the tab method of the notebook can be used to return information about a tab, such as the text on the tab.

Thus, you can get a list of the text for all of the tabs with something like this:

notebook = ttk.Notebook(...)
...
tab_names = [notebook.tab(i, option="text") for i in notebook.tabs()]

If you're new to list comprehensions, the above is the same as this:

tab_names = []
for i in notebook.tabs():
    tab_names.append(notebook.tab(i, "text"))

Upvotes: 7

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