Disabling a tab of a wxNotebook

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Hi,

I'm trying to disable a wxNotebook tab until such time as the state of
the software has "qualified" for the options available on the panel.

I've thought about using wxWindows.Enable(False) as you would on a
button for example, but there is no element (that I can find) in the GUI
code that represents the tab control itself. Disabling the appropriate
wxPanel just gives a non-responsive, but still accessible panel - which
is not greyed-out and thus confusing to the user.

The code is legacy (i.e. inherited from a predecessor) and for some
reason does not use a wxTabCtrl - but having gone through the wxTabCtrl
docs I don't see how to disable a tab there either.

Any advice appreciated,

Mitch

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The best you can do is to change the icon on the tab to signify that it is disabled, and then veto the page changing event if they try to change to that page.

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Mitchell.Polley@csiro.au wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to disable a wxNotebook tab until such time as the state of
the software has "qualified" for the options available on the panel.

I've thought about using wxWindows.Enable(False) as you would on a
button for example, but there is no element (that I can find) in the GUI
code that represents the tab control itself. Disabling the appropriate
wxPanel just gives a non-responsive, but still accessible panel - which
is not greyed-out and thus confusing to the user.

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