AuiNotebook catch 22

#1

There are two AuiNotebook implementations, one in wx.aui, and one in wx.lib.agw.aui.
The former honors the AUI_NB_CLOSE_ON_ALL_TABS flag, but doesn’t support SetCloseButton.
The latter ignores AUI_NB_CLOSE_ON_ALL_TABS, and, because of that, throws an exception on calls to SetCloseButton, complaining that ALL_TABS is not set.

What’s a poor programmer to do? And, in general, which is the correct .aui to be using? I assume the wx.lib.agw.aui one, but (for my purposes) its AuiNotebook is inferior to the wx.aui one.

#2

Are you positive that wx.lib.agw.aui ignores that style? From this message:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/wxPython-users/buMaDIPQIdI

It looks like I have implemented it back in 2009… does it work in the demo?

Andrea.

#3

I haven’t tried the demo. I just imported the library and tried it on my project.

#4

Then I believe you should try it. Unless something major has changed between Classic and Phoenix for wx.lib.agw.aui - which I find improbable - then it should just work. Alternatively, you might want to provide a small sample app demonstrating the problem.

#5

I tried this app. I get closes on both tabs with aui but only on the selected tab with wx.lib.agw.aui

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#6

All the widgets in the AGW package expect that the style you pass is named agwStyle (not style), I.e. you shouldn’t use this call:

notebook = self.notebook = aui.AuiNotebook(panel, style=aui.AUI_NB_CLOSE_ON_ALL_TABS)

But this:

notebook = self.notebook = aui.AuiNotebook(panel, agwStyle=aui.AUI_NB_CLOSE_ON_ALL_TABS)

And it is also very nicely shown in the wxPython documentation here:

https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/wx.lib.agw.aui.auibook.AuiNotebook.html#wx.lib.agw.aui.auibook.AuiNotebook

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#7

Thank you very much – it might have taken me a while to see that difference.

#8

Or here, in the docs for the current release:
https://docs.wxpython.org/wx.lib.agw.aui.auibook.AuiNotebook.html#wx.lib.agw.aui.auibook.AuiNotebook

:smiley:

#9

This is off topic, but I can’t help myself. I just noticed this thread a few days ago and realized that the OP was Murray Bowles, a software developer I worked with at a startup 30 years ago.

Today I Googled him to see what he was up to and discovered that he died over the weekend:

And I also discovered that he was a rather famous photographer, a part of his life he never shared with his software developer friends.

RIP Murray

#10

It looks like he had a very interesting life.

#11

RIP Murray Bowles

That’s f***ed up. Im a metal head.
Gimme 4 chords any rockstar should know…
Somehow I can but can’t see this NOT happening in metal or punk!

Sweet