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I'm developing an add-on, that sits in the graph editor. I've just upgraded to Blender 2.78 and saw that the panel is divided into different tabs (View, Modifiers, F-Curve, etc.). My add-on is placed in its own tab (mmvt). How can I change the currently open tab to be my tab (in code)?

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    $\begingroup$ See this. $\endgroup$
    – JakeD
    Oct 14, 2016 at 16:52
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    $\begingroup$ I could be wrong, but I don't think this is possible $\endgroup$
    – krypticbit
    Oct 14, 2016 at 21:24
  • $\begingroup$ Maybe you should go to stackoverflow $\endgroup$
    – Ivan
    Jul 22, 2017 at 9:33
  • $\begingroup$ @Noam Peled exactly where do you exactly where do you want to place that thing in your Add-on or tab? It's not very clear what you want to do, I do not understand if you want to do something in the add-on tab or if you want it to appear somewhere else!want to place that thing in your Add-on or tab? $\endgroup$
    – user52430
    Feb 16, 2018 at 14:18
  • $\begingroup$ @NikolaTeslaMandici I want (in code) to change to currently open tab from "Modifiers" (in this example) to my addon tab (mmvt). $\endgroup$
    – Noam Peled
    Feb 16, 2018 at 21:03

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Old question I know. I found this: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Projects/UI/Tab_Guidelines

you have a panel right? People seem to need a property called bl_category be set to the tab page name they want to place it on. In regard to this question it may be:

class panelName(bpy.types.Panel): bl_category = "Modifiers"

Also, changing the focus is a completely different task

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks Ruben! Yes, I'm setting the bl_category to "mmvt", this is why the tab's name is "mmvt". I'm trying to see how in my code I can change the currently open tab, so the user will see my tab instead of "Modifiers" for example. $\endgroup$
    – Noam Peled
    May 14, 2018 at 19:41
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    $\begingroup$ please note: "changing the focus is a completely different task" ;D my approach would be: - get a reference to a panel inside the tab - search the documentation for some Panel.Focus() functionality - then shoot it! ;D $\endgroup$
    – Ruben Boeck
    May 15, 2018 at 7:55

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