Embed Separate WX GUIs into Notebook Tabs

Question

I basically have 3 separate wxPython GUIs that I would like to combine into a single application, giving each GUI its own notebook tab. I'm not really sure how to do this though and am looking for some advice. I appreciate any comments or thoughts I can get.

My idea is that it should look something like this:

import wx
import OtherFrame

class PageOne(wx.Panel):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent)
        t = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "This is a PageOne object", (20,20))

        panel=OtherFrame.Panel(parent)
        box = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        panel.SetSizer(self,box)
        panel.Layout(self, parent)        

class PageTwo(wx.Panel):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent)
        t = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "This is a PageTwo object", (40,40))

class PageThree(wx.Panel):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent)
        t = wx.StaticText(self, -1, "This is a PageThree object", (60,60))


class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="Simple Notebook Example")

        p = wx.Panel(self)
        nb = wx.Notebook(p)
        page1 = PageOne(nb)
        page2 = PageTwo(nb)
        page3 = PageThree(nb)
        nb.AddPage(page1, "Page 1")
        nb.AddPage(page2, "Page 2")
        nb.AddPage(page3, "Page 3")
        sizer = wx.BoxSizer()
        sizer.Add(nb, 1, wx.EXPAND)
        p.SetSizer(sizer)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = wx.App()
    MainFrame().Show()
    app.MainLoop()

But this gives a few errors and crashes. Without the sizers under PageOne, it just puts a gray square in the top right corner, with them, it crashes.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I assume each of your frame's have panels in them with the code you want. Just take the code for the widgets from each of those frames and put those in each of the Page classes. You'll probably have to change the parents of the widgets to "self" instead of "panel" or whatever you call them.

Then you won't be opening a frame in each of the page code base. You don't want to open a frame there. You want the page to be the parent of the widgets, not open something else up.

Answer 2

Thanks to your help, I got this to work for me. Since each of my other wx App had Panel classes with all the widgets I wanted, I didn't need to create classes for each page. Here's the code:

import wx
import OtherFrame1
import OtherFrame2
import OtherFrame3

class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="Simple Notebook Example")

        p = wx.Panel(self)
        nb = wx.Notebook(p)
        page1 = OtherFrame1.Panel(nb)
        page2 = OtherFrame2.Panel(nb)
        page3 = OtherFrame3.Panel(nb)
        nb.AddPage(page1, "Page 1")
        nb.AddPage(page2, "Page 2")
        nb.AddPage(page3, "Page 3")
        sizer = wx.BoxSizer()
        sizer.Add(nb, 1, wx.EXPAND)
        p.SetSizer(sizer)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = wx.App(redirect=False)
    MainFrame().Show()
    app.MainLoop()

Thanks for the help!