graying out a notebook tab?

wxPython Users
1

Is it possible to gray out a notebook tab? or having something
similar.

I have a notebook with two pages, page1 and page2. I'm doing some
task "on page1", I want to disable the selection of page2 as
long the task on page1 is running.

I'have tried vetoing, I do not figure out how to make it.

Jean-Michel Fauth, Switzerland

2

Have you tried something like the following:

should_veto = 0

def veto_it(evt):
    if should_veto:
        evt.Veto()
    else:
        evt.Skip()

nb.Bind(wx.EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGING, veto_it)

- Josiah

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jmf <jfauth@bluewin.ch> wrote:

Is it possible to gray out a notebook tab? or having something
similar.

I have a notebook with two pages, page1 and page2. I'm doing some
task "on page1", I want to disable the selection of page2 as
long the task on page1 is running.

I'have tried vetoing, I do not figure out how to make it.

Jean-Michel Fauth, Switzerland

3

Hello Jean-Michel,

> Is it possible to gray out a notebook tab? or having something
> similar.
>
> I have a notebook with two pages, page1 and page2. I'm doing some
> task "on page1", I want to disable the selection of page2 as
> long the task on page1 is running.
>
> I'have tried vetoing, I do not figure out how to make it.
>
> Jean-Michel Fauth, Switzerland

Have you tried something like the following:

should_veto = 0

def veto_it(evt):
    if should_veto:
        evt.Veto()
    else:
        evt.Skip()

nb.Bind(wx.EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGING, veto_it)

or you can use NotebookCtrl at:

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/eng/freeware.html#notebookctrl

You can "grey out" (deactivate) a tab and make it unselectable with a single
function call. If it's not too much an overkill for your needs (and
obviously, if you like the widget :wink: )

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77

4

Hi,

though it is not a real wx question, I could not get any help on other
lists ...
I want to capture the text marked/ highlighted in any win32 application, i.e. Word
for further processing.
I played around w/ win32com, but unless I do not know the last active
window and what application it runs there seems to be no way to get
out what I need.
What I do now is I make the user copy marked text to the clipboard and
copy it from there...
Any help, hints, suggestions, snippets :slight_smile: ???

Cheers,
the_shelter

                            mailto:pdftex@the-shelter.de

5

Hi,

just as a suggestion. Look at:
http://www.windows-spy.com/

its a microsoft spy++ like inspection software. With this software you can inspect any running win32 application and it should be possible to get the marked text out of it. There is also a code example in C (sorry, don't remember the url in the moment) how to build such a inspection software.

I've tried to build a screen grabbing software with python a few month ago. I was able to rebuild this code example with the pywin32 extension in 'pure python' and it was possible to grep some parts of the application (like buttons or textcontrols) into
a bmp file.
Maybe you have to investigate a bit, but it should also be possible to extrakt the marked/ highlighted text.

regards,
Jürgen
the_shelter schrieb:

···

Hi,

though it is not a real wx question, I could not get any help on other
lists ...
I want to capture the text marked/ highlighted in any win32 application, i.e. Word
for further processing.
I played around w/ win32com, but unless I do not know the last active
window and what application it runs there seems to be no way to get
out what I need.
What I do now is I make the user copy marked text to the clipboard and
copy it from there...
Any help, hints, suggestions, snippets :slight_smile: ???

Cheers,
the_shelter

                           mailto:pdftex@the-shelter.de

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