Access specific ttk.Notebook tab from another class

Question

I have two classes in one file, one for the main gui and the other for the little settings gui.

class Class1:
    def __init__(self, mainwindow):
        self.mainwindow = mainwindow
        self.mainwindow.title("Assistant")
        self.mainwindow.geometry("550x400")

        # -- MenuBar --
        MenuBar = Menu(self.mainwindow)

        # FirstMenu
        FirstMenu = Menu(MenuBar, tearoff=False)
        FirstMenu.add_command(label="Settings", command=self.OpenInfo)
    
        self.mainwindow.config(menu=MenuBar)

    def OpenInfo(self):
        self.OpenSettings = Toplevel(self.mainwindow)
        self.app = SettingsGUI(self.OpenSettings)


        # -- MISSING CODE HERE --



class SettingsGUI:
    def __init__(self, settingswindow):
        self.settingswindow = settingswindow
        self.settingswindow.title("Settings")
        self.settingswindow.geometry("300x250")
        
        self.settingswindow.grab_set()


        def close_windows(self):
            self.settingswindow.release_set()
            self.settingswindow.destroy()

        SettingsFrame = Frame(self.settingswindow, bg="yellow")
        SettingsFrame.pack(fill=tk.BOTH, side=TOP, expand=True)
        
        SettingsTab = ttk.Notebook(SettingsTabFrame)
        
        PreferencesTab = ttk.Frame(SettingsTab)
        SettingsTab.add(PreferencesTab, text='Preferences')

        AppearanceTab = ttk.Frame(SettingsTab)
        SettingsTab.add(AppearanceTab, text='Appearance')

        InfoTab = ttk.Frame(SettingsTab)
        SettingsTab.add(InfoTab, text='Info')



def main():
    mainwindow = tk.Tk()
    app = AssistantGUI(mainwindow)
    mainwindow.mainloop()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

I don't know what to add to the OpenInfo command to open not only the SettingsGUI , but a specific tab (the third, the InfoTab ) of the SettingsGUI .
I'm aware of the select function from ttk Notebook, but I really don't know how to use it from a class to another.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I've made a few changes to your code.

Code has remarks inserted at relevant places that detail all changes.

The main ones were SettingsTab.select(InfoTab) and 'SettingsTab.pack(...`

Also your menu needed to tweak with add_cascade .

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

# changed this from Class1
class AssistantGUI:
    def __init__(self, mainwindow):
        self.mainwindow = mainwindow
        self.mainwindow.title("Assistant")
        self.mainwindow.geometry("550x400")

        # -- MenuBar --
        MenuBar = tk.Menu(self.mainwindow)

        # FirstMenu
        FirstMenu = tk.Menu(MenuBar, tearoff = False)
        # added this
        MenuBar.add_cascade(label = "Open", menu = FirstMenu)
        FirstMenu.add_command(label = "Settings", command = self.OpenInfo)
    
        self.mainwindow.config(menu=MenuBar)

    def OpenInfo(self):
        self.OpenSettings = tk.Toplevel(self.mainwindow)
        self.app = SettingsGUI(self.OpenSettings)

        # -- MISSING CODE HERE --

class SettingsGUI:
    def __init__(self, settingswindow):
        self.settingswindow = settingswindow
        self.settingswindow.title("Settings")
        self.settingswindow.geometry("300x250")
        
        self.settingswindow.grab_set()

        def close_windows(self):
            # removed grab_release
            self.settingswindow.destroy()

        SettingsFrame = tk.Frame(self.settingswindow, bg = "yellow")
        SettingsFrame.pack(fill = tk.BOTH, side = tk.TOP, expand = True)
        # changed this from SettingsTabFrame
        SettingsTab = ttk.Notebook(SettingsFrame)
        
        PreferencesTab = ttk.Frame(SettingsTab)
        SettingsTab.add(PreferencesTab, text = 'Preferences')

        AppearanceTab = ttk.Frame(SettingsTab)
        SettingsTab.add(AppearanceTab, text = 'Appearance')

        InfoTab = ttk.Frame(SettingsTab)
        SettingsTab.add(InfoTab, text = 'Info')

        # added these
        SettingsTab.pack(fill = tk.BOTH, side = tk.TOP, expand = True)
        # focus on InfoTab
        SettingsTab.select(InfoTab)
        # Force focus on settingswindow
        SettingsTab.focus_force()

def main():
    mainwindow = tk.Tk()
    app = AssistantGUI(mainwindow)
    mainwindow.mainloop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()