Tab Strip Scripting and Binding

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Ok here is something for you to play with. Import this into a fresh project so it doesn’t interfere with anything you have now.

JC_TabStrip_From_Query_2020-10-13_1145.zip (6.6 KB)

I added two custom properties to the tab strip.
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topic_list is bound to the named query, also named topic_list

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tabFormat, I just copied from the default tabData, and deleted all but one row. We’ll use this in a bit to craete the new tabData.
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In the propertyChange event:

if event.propertyName == 'topic_list':
	# Get the tabstrip component. Since we will be referencing
	# it a lot, it's handy to create an easy reference.
	tabStrip = event.source
	# Get the PyDataSet version of topic_list
	topicDataSet = system.dataset.toPyDataSet(tabStrip.topic_list)
	# Get the pyDataSet version of the tab format
	formatDataSet = system.dataset.toPyDataSet(tabStrip.tabFormat)

	# Create format list. It's just everything after the
	# tab name and display name. This will get added to the id 
	# and topic from the topic list dataset 
	format = list(formatDataSet[0])[2:]

	# Get the tabData headers. It's why I kept all the columns
	# in for format dataset.	
	tabDataHeaders = list(formatDataSet.getColumnNames())
	dataOut = []

	# Iterate through the topics and add the format to it.
	for row in topicDataSet:
		dataOut.append(list(row) + format)
	
	# Write the new tabData
	tabStrip.tabData = system.dataset.toDataSet(tabDataHeaders, dataOut)
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