Embedding a Carousel inside a TabbedPanel - darkopevec/kivy GitHub Wiki

#!python
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.tabbedpanel import TabbedPanel
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty
from kivy.lang import Builder

Builder.load_string('''
<RootWidget>:
    carousel: carousel
    do_default_tab: False
    Carousel:
        on_index: root.on_index(*args)
        id: carousel
        Button:
            text: 'Slide one'
            tab: tab1
        Button:
            text: 'Slide Two'
            tab:tab2
        Button:
            text: 'Slide three'
            tab: tab3

    TabbedPanelItem:
        id: tab1
        text: 'tab1'
        slide: 0
    TabbedPanelItem:
        id: tab2
        text: 'tab2'
        slide: 1
    TabbedPanelItem:
        id: tab3
        text: 'tab 3'
        slide: 2
''')

class RootWidget(TabbedPanel):

    def on_index(self, instance, value):
        tab = instance.current_slide.tab
        if self.current_tab != tab:
            self.switch_to(tab)

    def switch_to(self, header):
        # we have to replace the functionality of the original switch_to
        self.current_tab.state = "normal"
        header.state = 'down'
        self._current_tab = header
        # set the carousel to load  the appropriate slide
        # saved in the screen attribute of the tab head
        self.carousel.index = header.slide


class MainApp(App):

    def build(self):
        return RootWidget()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    MainApp().run()