[GH-ISSUE #1086] Missing API method to retrieve a page from a `Pages` set #789

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opened 2026-03-04 01:07:45 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

kerem commented

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Originally created by @jsumners-nr on GitHub (Apr 15, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/1086

There's methods for getting the names of pages, removing pages, and determining if the set contains a specific page, but there isn't a method for retrieving a page by name. This seems like an oversight?

As an example, I have an app (github.com/newrelic/node-log-viewer@8a59279cda) that uses pages for all of the different views of the app. I want to reset a page to its default state after it has been used. Specifically, there's a search page that has an input field and two buttons (search and cancel). After a user issues a search, and then re-opens the search page to perform another search, the previous state will be shown. In my current structure, I believe that I need to be able to retrieve the search page from the set of pages so that I can reset the field value and issue a .SetFocus on it. But I can't do that with the current API. So I think I'm going to have to restructure my app to separate the form from the "page".

(if you want to try that app to see what I mean, there's a sample log file in testdata/v0/ that can be used)

Originally created by @jsumners-nr on GitHub (Apr 15, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/1086 There's methods for getting the names of pages, removing pages, and determining if the set contains a specific page, but there isn't a method for retrieving a page by name. This seems like an oversight? As an example, I have an app (https://github.com/newrelic/node-log-viewer/tree/8a59279cda5f9a81825dbb967068694170816e88) that uses pages for all of the different views of the app. I want to reset a page to its default state after it has been used. Specifically, there's a search page that has an input field and two buttons (search and cancel). After a user issues a search, and then re-opens the search page to perform another search, the previous state will be shown. In my current structure, I believe that I need to be able to retrieve the search page from the set of pages so that I can reset the field value and issue a `.SetFocus` on it. But I can't do that with the current API. So I think I'm going to have to restructure my app to separate the form from the "page". (if you want to try that app to see what I mean, there's a sample log file in `testdata/v0/` that can be used)

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kerem commented

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@rivo commented on GitHub (Aug 27, 2025):

See the commit linked above.

This seems like an oversight?

This was just never requested.

@rivo commented on GitHub (Aug 27, 2025): See the commit linked above. > This seems like an oversight? This was just never requested.

kerem commented

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@jsumners-nr commented on GitHub (Aug 27, 2025):

Excellent. Thank you.

@jsumners-nr commented on GitHub (Aug 27, 2025): Excellent. Thank you.