Re: [wxlua-users] four tabs one in each corner withwxAuiNotebook:Split()

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi John/Victor,
>
> I've seen suggested patches (like this one:
> http://www.kirix.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=542#p1479), but they
> have never made it into the library. It *may* be possible to reproduce
> the same logic that is used when this is done manually, but
> unfortunately, I don't see a way to get access to wxAuiTabCtrl that is
> needed for this manipulation.
>
>
I don't know why these patches never made it into wxWidgets, but earlier
this year there was more talk about updating wxAui on the wx-dev mailing
list and I think saving the perspective was part of it. I don't know what
came of it though.


John, a side note; it's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a way to
> get wxAuiTabCtrl from wxAuiNotebook. The only way I found was through
>

If this is part of the C++ api I can add it for sure, it is?


> panes = nbmgr:GetAllPanes()
> tabframe = panes:Item(1).window:DynamicCast("wxTabFrame") -- this
> should work, but fails with "Cannot cast a wxLua type 'wxWindow' with
> wxClassInfo 'wxWindow' to a 'wxTabFrame'".
>
>
It looks like wxTabFrame is not exposed though any header file.


> It would be great to have access to FindTab, which returns both the
> tab control and tab index for the page in that control, but it's
> marked as protected:
>
> protected:
>    bool FindTab(wxWindow* page, wxAuiTabCtrl** ctrl, int* idx);
>
> What are your thoughts on exposing protected classes in the wxlua API?
> There are two more in that category wxStat and wxLstat that I'd love
> to have in wxlua.
>
>
It is unfortunately not really possible to expose these in a generic way.
wxLua can compile against a system installed copy of wxWidgets and we can't
expect people to be able to change "protected:" to "public:". There really
isn't a viable way to do this in C++ that isn't a complete hack that will
just lead to frustrating people with compilation errors.

A quick google search hints that wxPython has implemented this, how did
they do it?

Regards,
    John