Authors CurseForge

I am missing something fundamental. I apologise in advance for asking what has already been asked but my question is how can I reference a widget within a Tab Control when I have to keep recreating the widget every time I swap tabs.

This is a chunk of my code. I have two frames that swap between edit mode and view mode. In the editor I tried to add a tab control so that i can have tab one for current language and tab 2 for a second language.

The problem for me is in GSSE:SelectGroup(container, event, group). If I define the widgets outside functions then I can call them and adjust them (Widget:SetText()) but when I add them to a tab control unless I release (After which I cant access them locally) them I got tab windows stacking vertically down the page. For example from the below I can access nameeditbox:SetText("Stuff") from the callback from changing the drop down list.

Can I reference the tabs widgets via something like Container.Widget:SetText()?

Again apologies if this is something that I should just know or get. I'm trying to work backwards and figure things out.

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local sequenceboxtext = AceGUI:Create("MultiLineEditBox")
local remotesequenceboxtext = AceGUI:Create("MultiLineEditBox")

function GSSE:drawstandardwindow(container)
  local sequencebox = AceGUI:Create("MultiLineEditBox")
  sequencebox:SetLabel("Sequence")
  sequencebox:SetNumLines(20)
  sequencebox:DisableButton(true)
  sequencebox:SetFullWidth(true)
  sequencebox:SetText(sequenceboxtext:GetText())
  container:AddChild(sequencebox)

  local updbutton = AceGUI:Create("Button")
  updbutton:SetText("Edit")
  updbutton:SetWidth(200)
  updbutton:SetCallback("OnClick", function() GSSE:updateSequence(currentSequence) end)
  container:AddChild(updbutton)
  sequenceboxtext = sequencebox
end

function GSSE:drawsecondarywindow(container)
  local languages = GSTRListCachedLanguages()
  local listbox = AceGUI:Create("Dropdown")
  listbox:SetLabel("Choose Language")
  listbox:SetWidth(250)
  listbox:SetList(languages)
  listbox:SetCallback("OnValueChanged", function (obj,event,key) GSSE:loadTranslatedSequence(GSTRListCachedLanguages()[key]) end)
  container:AddChild(listbox)

  local remotesequencebox = AceGUI:Create("MultiLineEditBox")
  remotesequencebox:SetLabel("Translated Sequence")
  remotesequencebox:SetText(remotesequenceboxtext:GetText())
  remotesequencebox:SetNumLines(20)
  remotesequencebox:DisableButton(true)
  remotesequencebox:SetFullWidth(true)
  container:AddChild(remotesequencebox)
  remotesequenceboxtext = remotesequencebox

end

-- Callback function for OnGroupSelected
function GSSE:SelectGroup(container, event, group)
   local tremote = remotesequenceboxtext:GetText()
   local tlocal = sequenceboxtext:GetText()
   container:ReleaseChildren()
   GSPrintDebugMessage("Selecting tab: " .. group, GNOME)
   if group == "localtab" then
      GSSE:drawstandardwindow(container)
   elseif group == "remotetab" then
      GSSE:drawsecondarywindow(container)
   end
   remotesequenceboxtext:SetText(tremote)
   sequenceboxtext:SetText(tlocal)
end
-- function that draws the widgets for the first tab


local frame = AceGUI:Create("Frame")
local curentSequence
frame:SetTitle("Sequence Viewer")
frame:SetStatusText("Gnome Sequencer: Sequence Viewer")
frame:SetCallback("OnClose", function(widget) frame:Hide() end)
frame:SetLayout("List")

local names = GSSE:getSequenceNames()
local listbox = AceGUI:Create("Dropdown")
listbox:SetLabel("Load Sequence")
listbox:SetWidth(250)
listbox:SetList(names)
listbox:SetCallback("OnValueChanged", function (obj,event,key) GSSE:loadSequence(key) currentSequence = key end)
frame:AddChild(listbox)



if GSTranslatorAvailable and GSMasterOptions.useTranslator then
  local tab =  AceGUI:Create("TabGroup")
  tab:SetLayout("Flow")
  -- Setup which tabs to show
  tab:SetTabs({{text=GetLocale(), value="localtab"}, {text="Translate to", value="remotetab"}})
  -- Register callback
  tab:SetCallback("OnGroupSelected",  function (container, event, group) GSSE:SelectGroup(container, event, group) end)
  -- Set initial Tab (this will fire the OnGroupSelected callback)
  tab:SelectTab("localtab")
  tab:SetFullWidth(true)
  -- add to the frame container
  frame:AddChild(tab)
else
  GSSE:drawstandardwindow(frame)
end

-------------end viewer-------------
-------------begin editor--------------------
local editframe = AceGUI:Create("Frame")
local stepvalue

local headerGroup = AceGUI:Create("SimpleGroup")
headerGroup:SetFullWidth(true)
headerGroup:SetLayout("Flow")

local firstheadercolumn = AceGUI:Create("SimpleGroup")
--firstheadercolumn:SetFullWidth(true)
firstheadercolumn:SetLayout("List")

editframe:SetTitle("Sequence Editor")
editframe:SetStatusText("Gnome Sequencer: Sequence Editor. Press the Close button to Save -->")
editframe:SetCallback("OnClose", function() GSSE:eupdateSequence(currentSequence, GSSequenceEditorLoaded) end)
editframe:SetLayout("List")

local nameeditbox = AceGUI:Create("EditBox")
nameeditbox:SetLabel("Sequence Name")
nameeditbox:SetWidth(250)
firstheadercolumn:AddChild(nameeditbox)

local stepdropdown = AceGUI:Create("Dropdown")
stepdropdown:SetLabel("Step Function")
stepdropdown:SetWidth(250)
stepdropdown:SetList({
  ["1"] = "Sequential (1 2 3 4)",
  ["2"] = "Priority List (1 12 123 1234)",

})

stepdropdown:SetCallback("OnValueChanged", function (obj,event,key) stepvalue = key end)
firstheadercolumn:AddChild(stepdropdown)

local specClassGroup = AceGUI:Create("SimpleGroup")
specClassGroup:SetFullWidth(true)
specClassGroup:SetLayout("Flow")

local specradio = AceGUI:Create("CheckBox")
specradio:SetType("radio")
specradio:SetLabel("Specialization Specific Macro")
specradio:SetValue(true)
specradio:SetWidth(250)
specradio:SetCallback("OnValueChanged", function (obj,event,key) GSSE:toggleClasses("spec")  end)

local classradio = AceGUI:Create("CheckBox")
classradio:SetType("radio")
classradio:SetLabel("Classwide Macro")
classradio:SetValue(false)
classradio:SetWidth(250)
classradio:SetCallback("OnValueChanged", function (obj,event,key) GSSE:toggleClasses("class")  end)


specClassGroup:AddChild(specradio)
specClassGroup:AddChild(classradio)


headerGroup:AddChild(firstheadercolumn)

local iconpicker = AceGUI:Create("Icon")
iconpicker:SetLabel("Macro Icon")

headerGroup:AddChild(iconpicker)
editframe:AddChild(headerGroup)
editframe:AddChild(specClassGroup)

local premacrobox = AceGUI:Create("MultiLineEditBox")
premacrobox:SetLabel("PreMacro")
premacrobox:SetNumLines(3)
premacrobox:DisableButton(true)
premacrobox:SetFullWidth(true)
editframe:AddChild(premacrobox)


local spellbox = AceGUI:Create("MultiLineEditBox")
spellbox:SetLabel("Sequence")
spellbox:SetNumLines(9)
spellbox:DisableButton(true)
spellbox:SetFullWidth(true)
editframe:AddChild(spellbox)

local postmacrobox = AceGUI:Create("MultiLineEditBox")
postmacrobox:SetLabel("PostMacro")
postmacrobox:SetNumLines(3)
postmacrobox:DisableButton(true)
postmacrobox:SetFullWidth(true)
editframe:AddChild(postmacrobox)

What I am asking is can i do something like:

Frame.tab.remotesequencebox:SetText("sometexthere")