Changing the title of a Tab in wx.Notebook

Question

I'm experimenting with wxPython,

I have a tabbed interface (notebook) and each tab is basically a file list view (yes, I'm trying to make a file manager)

The file list inherits from wx.ListCtrl, and the tabbed interface inherits from wx.Notebook

I'm just starting .. and I had it so double clicking on a folder will cd into that folder, but I want to also change the title of the tab.

How do I do that?

I have the object that represents the file list and the title I want to set it to,

[ EDIT Notebook.SetPageText() takes a number, so I can't pass the tab object directly to it ]

my current approach is to cycle through the tabs until one of them matches my tab:

    for tab_id in range(self.GetPageCount()):
        if self.GetPage(tab_id) == tab:
            self.SetPageText(tab_id, title)
            break

This seems rather naive though, isn't there a smarter approach?

Answer 1

As .GetPage returns a wx.Window, I think tab.Label = title should work.

Answer 2

I think doing something like this helps :

notebook.get_tab_label(notebook.get_nth_page(your_page_number)).set_text("Your text")

If you want to have a reference to the current tab always, you must connect the "switch-page" signal, and save the page in a variable.

Answer 3

I don't know wxPython, but I assume it wraps all the methods of the C++ classes.

There is wxNotebook::GetSelection() which returns wxNOT_FOUND or the index of the selected page, which can then be used to call wxNotebook::SetPageText().

Or use wxNotebook::GetPage() with this index to check whether it is equal to tab.