Here is what I came up with - hopefully I have understood the processcorrectly

[Jane Griscti]

You can use the 'Toolbutton' style in place of 'indicatoron'

button = Checkbutton(r, 
text='Test',
style='Toolbutton')
button.pack()



> On Sunday, March 13, 2011 11:08 PM Peter wrote:

> Hi I am struggling to get a good understanding of styles as used in
> ttk. I have read the tutorial section on using styles but have not been
> able to solve this problem.
> 
> I am attempting to create a Checkbutton with the indicatoron=3Dfalse
> option. Using ttk the documentation is clear that you have to create a
> custom style to achieve this behaviour. But the only "example" I have
> been able to find on the Internet searches is written in Tcl i.e. here
> is what I have found (quoted directly):
> 
> Here=92s how you set it up: To achieve the effect of -indicatoron false,
> create a new layout that doesn=92t have an indicator:
> 
> style layout Toolbar.TCheckbutton {
> Toolbutton.border -children {
> Toolbutton.padding -children {
> Toolbutton.label
> }
> }
> }
> 
> Then use style map and style default to control the border appearance:
> 
> style default Toolbar.TCheckbutton \
> -relief flat
> style map Toolbar.TCheckbutton -relief {
> disabled flat
> selected sunken
> pressed sunken
> active raised
> 
> Hopefully somebody else in this group has "done" this and can post
> their "solution"?
> 
> Thanks
> Peter


>> On Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:12 PM Peter wrote:

>> Here is what I came up with - hopefully I have understood the process
>> correctly and therefore that the comments are correct :-)
>> 
>> I am not sure I have the color of the indicator when it is (de)pressed
>> correct, but to my eyes the color 'snow' looks like the same color
>> used with a Tkinter Checkbutton with indicatoron=false.
>> 
>> r = Tk()
>> 
>> s = Style()
>> 
>> s.layout('NoIndicator.TCheckbutton',
>> [('Checkbutton.border',
>> {'children': [('Checkbutton.padding',
>> {'children': [('Checkbutton.label',
>> {})]})]})])
>> 
>> checkbutton
>> s.theme_settings('default', {
>> 'NoIndicator.TCheckbutton': {'configure': {'relief': ''}}})
>> 
>> behaviour
>> s.map('NoIndicator.TCheckbutton',
>> relief=[('disabled', 'flat'),
>> ('selected', 'sunken'),
>> ('pressed', 'sunken'),
>> ('active', 'raised'),
>> ('!active', 'raised')],
>> background=[('selected', 'snow')])
>> 
>> button = Checkbutton(r,
>> text='Test',
>> style='NoIndicator.TCheckbutton')
>> button.pack()
>> 
>> r.mainloop()