[PyKDE] noob: QtabWidget

[Tina Isaksen]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:

>To me it seems you have some problems translating the C++-docs to Python
>;-)
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Very much so! I know next to nothing about C++

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>>I have a tab widget and need to check what tab is the active one, so I have 
>>tried (among other things):
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>What exactly does that mean?
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I have a QtabWidget with three pages (tabs) and needs to check what page 
is the active one.

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>>def doSaveMain(self):
>>       if self.isTabEnabled(self.mainTabWidget  * sources):
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>This would call isTabEnabled on "self" which doesn't seems to be the
>QTabWidget. Thats the first problem, now the second is: You try to
>multiply the QTabWidget with the value of the variable sources. 
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Heh... trying with the '*' was a last desperate attempt because I could 
not understand why one would need to multiply.

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>If self.sources points to the widget it's even easier:
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>if self.mainTabWidget.currentPage() == self.sources:
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Thanks! Worked like a charm.  And what's even better; after looking it 
up in the assistant I actually understand it ;)

>The Qt docs are for C++, there "QWidget* w" means: The variable "w" has
>the type "pointer to QWidget". So the isTabEnabled function wants a
>QWidget instance as parameter and as it belongs to QTabWidget needs to
>be called on a QTabWidget instance (your mainTabWidget).
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Thanks for the explanation. I'm having a hard time catching the C++ to 
Python 'conversion' so this really helps. I really apreciate it.

Tina