Checkboxes and Tortured Logic

[Martin Franklin]

Marc wrote:

> I know there's got to be a better way to do this than the way that I
> found. But the only way I've been able to succesfully retrieve a value
> from a checkbox (using the scant documentation I've been able to find)


>From the docs....

(pydoc Tkinter.Checkbutton)


class Checkbutton(Widget)
 |  Checkbutton widget which is either in on- or off-state.
 |
 |  _Misc__winfo_getint = __winfo_getint(self, x) from Tkinter.Misc
 |
 |  _Misc__winfo_parseitem = __winfo_parseitem(self, t) from Tkinter.Misc
 |
 |  __getitem__ = cget(self, key) from Tkinter.Misc
 |
 |  __init__(self, master=None, cnf={}, **kw)
 |      Construct a checkbutton widget with the parent MASTER.
 |
 |      Valid resource names: activebackground, activeforeground, anchor,
 |      background, bd, bg, bitmap, borderwidth, command, cursor,
 |      disabledforeground, fg, font, foreground, height,
 |      highlightbackground, highlightcolor, highlightthickness, image,
 |      indicatoron, justify, offvalue, onvalue, padx, pady, relief,
 |      selectcolor, selectimage, state, takefocus, text, textvariable,
 |      underline, variable, width, wraplength.

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So I guess you need the onvalue and offvalue parameters set...