== Introduction ==

As of this writing, the current wxWidgets API does not supply an interface to enumerate the tools in a toolbar if the tool IDs are not known in advance. A [[http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/11628|ticket suggesting this feature]] has been posted in the tracker. In the meantime, this recipe describes techniques that attempt to elicit this information using the existing APIs.

== A Simple Approach for a Simple Toolbar ==

If you have a simple horizontal tool bar with exactly one row and evenly-spaced tools and no spacers, the following code snippet appears to work to retrieve the tools.

{{{
#!python

def getToolsForToolbar(tb):
	tool_size = tb.GetToolSize()
	width, height = tool_size
	pos = 0
	while True:
		tool = tb.FindToolForPosition(pos, 0)
		if tool: yield tool
		else: break
		pos += width

}}}

If you end up building on this to handle some of the aforementioned limitations, please consider updating this Wiki.