#308 yad notebook parameter --active-tab

[termino logia]

Hello Victor,

thank you for this great tool !

I have a problem with the notebook parameter --active-tab. It doesn't work as expected.

the following example doesn't work, the tab1 is always the active tab from the start.

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#!/bin/bash -xv id="${RANDOM}" yad --plug=$id --tabnum=1 --form --columns=4 --scroll --borders=30 & yad --plug=$id --tabnum=2 --form --columns=4 --scroll --borders=30 & yad --notebook --key=$id --tab="tab1" --tab="tab2" --active-tab=2 --width=900 --height=600

It should display the tab2 as the active tab, instead the tab1 is always the active tab.

[termino logia]

sorry forgot to add some information

yad --version
0.40.0 (GTK+ 3.22.30)

[termino logia]

strange, no comment or info in 2 months from the maintainer ?!

is nobody interested in solving this problem ?

it seems, that the solution of this problem lies in the following file:

r1117/trunk/src/notebook.c

function notebook_create_widget

/ set active tab /
if (options.notebook_data.active <= 0)
options.notebook_data.active = 1;
gtk_notebook_set_current_page (GTK_NOTEBOOK (w), options.notebook_data.active - 1);

Is anyone able to give me a hint ?

[termino logia]

Hi Victor,

hopefully you can read this :-)

the notebook active tab function works with gtkdialog, an example is shown here:
http://blogs.czapski.id.au/2017/05/gtkdialog-exploring-the-notebook-object-by-example

in this example you can define which tab should be the initial active tab in the notebook widget.

Since i don't want to use gtkdialog or both tools with gtkdialog as a wrapper, i would appreciate it if you could at least confirm this bug in the actual yad version.

this function was integrated in yad Version 0.39.0
https://github.com/v1cont/yad/blob/master/NEWS

another thing is, there are are two sites which claim to host the yad project
1. Sourceforge
2. GitHub

which one is it, or is there a transition in progress ? :-)

thanks in advance

[Jim Selover]

The GTK docs say the active tab can only be set after the widget has been shown, I moved setting of the active tab in notbook.c from the notebook_create_widget function to the notebook_swallow_childs function (both in notebook.c) and recompiled.

The notebook_swallow_childs function is called after the gtk_widget_show_all is called in main.c.

The --actrive-tab=N option now works for me. I have atttached a patch file for consideration.
Thanks.