Started adding tabbed panes so multiple feeds / filters can be seen... currently, just managed to break everything

default.glade

@@ -77,6 +77,14 @@
 	      </child>
 	    </widget>
 	  </child>
+
+	  <child>
+	    <widget class="GtkMenuItem" id="view_menu">
+	      <property name="visible">True</property>
+	      <property name="label" translatable="yes">_View</property>
+	      <property name="use_underline">True</property>
+	    </widget>
+	  </child>
 	</widget>
 	<packing>
 	  <property name="padding">0</property>
@@ -86,22 +94,17 @@
       </child>
 
       <child>
-	<widget class="GtkScrolledWindow" id="tweet_view">
+	<widget class="GtkNotebook" id="tweet_notebook">
 	  <property name="visible">True</property>
 	  <property name="can_focus">True</property>
-	  <property name="hscrollbar_policy">GTK_POLICY_NEVER</property>
+	  <property name="show_tabs">True</property>
-	  <property name="vscrollbar_policy">GTK_POLICY_ALWAYS</property>
+	  <property name="show_border">True</property>
-	  <property name="shadow_type">GTK_SHADOW_NONE</property>
+	  <property name="tab_pos">GTK_POS_TOP</property>
-	  <property name="window_placement">GTK_CORNER_TOP_LEFT</property>
+	  <property name="scrollable">True</property>
-	  <signal name="grab_focus" handler="set_tweets_read" last_modification_time="Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:09:46 GMT"/>
+	  <property name="enable_popup">True</property>
 
 	  <child>
-	    <widget class="GtkViewport" id="viewport1">
+	    <widget class="GtkVBox" id="vbox1">
-	      <property name="visible">True</property>
-	      <property name="shadow_type">GTK_SHADOW_IN</property>
-
-	      <child>
-		<widget class="GtkVBox" id="tweet_box">
 	      <property name="visible">True</property>
 	      <property name="homogeneous">False</property>
 	      <property name="spacing">0</property>
@@ -110,8 +113,33 @@
 		<placeholder/>
 	      </child>
 	    </widget>
+	    <packing>
+	      <property name="tab_expand">False</property>
+	      <property name="tab_fill">True</property>
+	    </packing>
 	  </child>
+
+	  <child>
+	    <widget class="GtkLabel" id="home_tab_label">
+	      <property name="visible">True</property>
+	      <property name="label" translatable="yes">Home</property>
+	      <property name="use_underline">False</property>
+	      <property name="use_markup">False</property>
+	      <property name="justify">GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT</property>
+	      <property name="wrap">False</property>
+	      <property name="selectable">False</property>
+	      <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
+	      <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
+	      <property name="xpad">0</property>
+	      <property name="ypad">0</property>
+	      <property name="ellipsize">PANGO_ELLIPSIZE_NONE</property>
+	      <property name="width_chars">-1</property>
+	      <property name="single_line_mode">False</property>
+	      <property name="angle">0</property>
 	    </widget>
+	    <packing>
+	      <property name="type">tab</property>
+	    </packing>
 	  </child>
 	</widget>
 	<packing>

mytwitter.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
         if self.refresh_time < 10:
             self.refresh_time = 10
 
+        self.tweet_panes = []
         self.tweets = []
         self.list = None
         self.reply_id = None
@@ -45,20 +46,21 @@ class MyTwitter():
 
 
     def init_widgets(self):
+        # Get widgets from glade
         self.list_select = self.widget_tree.get_widget('list_select')
-        self.tweet_box = self.widget_tree.get_widget('tweet_box')
+        self.tweet_notebook = self.widget_tree.get_widget('tweet_notebook')
+        self.view_menu = self.widget_tree.get_widget('view_menu')
         self.update_entry = self.widget_tree.get_widget('update_entry')
         self.update_count = self.widget_tree.get_widget('update_count')
         self.status_bar = self.widget_tree.get_widget('status_bar')
         self.context_id = self.status_bar.get_context_id('message')
 
-        # Build us some labels...
+        self.tweet_notebook.remove_page(0) # kill the page that glade makes us have
-        for i in range(0, self.num_entries):
+
-            self.tweets.append(TweetBox())
+        # Add the Home tab to the notebook
-            self.tweet_box.pack_start(self.tweets[i])
+        self.tweet_panes.append(TweetPane('Home', self))
-            self.tweets[i].connect('reply', self.on_reply)
+        self.tweet_notebook.append_page(self.tweet_panes[0])
-            self.tweets[i].connect('retweet', self.on_retweet)
+        self.tweet_notebook.set_tab_label_text(self.tweet_panes[0], 'Home')
-        self.tweet_box.show_all()
 
         # Fill the ComboBox with entries
         self.list_select.append_text('@' + self.username)
@@ -84,30 +86,7 @@ class MyTwitter():
         else:
             statuses = self.api.GetListStatuses(self.list, per_page=self.num_entries)
 
-        # If this is our first load of this list, don't treat anything as new!
+        self.tweet_panes[0].update_window(statuses)
-        if self.last_tweet_read is None:
-            self.last_tweet_read = statuses[0].id
-
-        # Keep count of the new tweets for posting a status message
-        num_new_tweets = 0
-
-        for i in range(0, self.num_entries):
-            read = True
-            if i < len(statuses):
-                if statuses[i].id > self.last_tweet_read:
-                    num_new_tweets += 1
-                    read = False
-                self.tweets[i].set_status(statuses[i], read)
-            else:
-                self.tweets[i].clear_status()
-
-        self.latest_tweet = statuses[0].id
-        self.status_bar.pop(self.context_id)
-        if num_new_tweets > 0:
-            status_text = str(num_new_tweets) + ' new tweet'
-            if num_new_tweets > 1:
-                status_text += 's'
-            self.status_bar.push(self.context_id, status_text)
 
 
     def update_window_callback(self, widget):
@@ -165,9 +144,82 @@ class MyTwitter():
         print 'debug: set_tweets_read()'
         self.last_tweet_read = self.latest_tweet
 
+    
+    def set_tweets_read_callback(self, event):
+        self.set_tweets_read()
+
 ### end class MyTwitter
 
 
+class TweetPane(gtk.ScrolledWindow):
+    '''
+    Box that holds all the TweetBoxes for a given feed
+
+    This box will not update itself, the parent should do that.
+    
+    It will connect num_entries listeners to its parent's on_reply() and on_retweet()
+
+    It also gets some data from its parent, including num_entries
+    '''
+
+    def __init__(self, list_name, mytwitter):
+        gtk.ScrolledWindow.__init__(self)
+
+        self.list_name = list_name
+        self.mytwitter = mytwitter
+
+        # These handle determining which tweets are unread
+        self.last_tweet_read = None
+        self.latest_tweet = None
+
+        self.tweets = []
+
+        self.init_widgets()
+
+
+    def init_widgets(self):
+        tweet_box = gtk.VBox()
+        viewport = gtk.Viewport()
+
+        # Build us some labels...
+        for i in range(0, self.mytwitter.num_entries):
+            self.tweets.append(TweetBox())
+            tweet_box.pack_start(self.tweets[i])
+            self.tweets[i].connect('reply', self.mytwitter.on_reply)
+            self.tweets[i].connect('retweet', self.mytwitter.on_retweet)
+        tweet_box.show_all()
+
+        viewport.add(tweet_box)
+        self.add(viewport)
+        self.set_policy(gtk.POLICY_NEVER, gtk.POLICY_ALWAYS)
+
+
+    def update_window(self, statuses):
+        # If this is our first load of this list, don't treat anything as new!
+        if self.last_tweet_read is None:
+            self.last_tweet_read = statuses[0].id
+
+        # Keep count of the new tweets for posting a status message
+        num_new_tweets = 0
+
+        for i in range(0, self.mytwitter.num_entries):
+            read = True
+            if i < len(statuses):
+                if statuses[i].id > self.last_tweet_read:
+                    num_new_tweets += 1
+                    read = False
+                self.tweets[i].set_status(statuses[i], read)
+            else:
+                self.tweets[i].clear_status()
+
+        self.latest_tweet = statuses[0].id
+
+        if num_new_tweets > 0:
+            pass # fixme: change the label here, or maybe in mytwitter?
+
+### end class TweetPane
+
+
 class TweetBox(gtk.VBox):
 
     '''