Adding borders to ttk radiobuttons

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Mar 30 12:38:27 EDT 2016


On 3/30/2016 11:14 AM, Mark Lawrence via Python-list wrote:
> On 30/03/2016 15:55, ast wrote:
>>
>> "ast" <nomail at com.invalid> a écrit dans le message de
>> news:56fbe699$0$4548$426a74cc at news.free.fr...
>>>
>>> "Mark Lawrence" <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> a écrit dans le message de
>>> news:mailman.204.1459343690.28225.python-list at python.org...
>>>> I believe something like this should suffice to display borders
>>>> around the radiobuttons.
>>>>
>>>> import tkinter as tk
>>>> import tkinter.ttk as ttk
>>>> root = tk.Tk()
>>>> style = ttk.Style()
>>>> style.configure('BW.TRadiobutton', borderwidth=5)
>>>> buttonVar = tk.IntVar()
>>>> rb1 = ttk.Radiobutton(text='Hello mum', variable=buttonVar, value=1)
>>>> rb1.configure(style='BW.TRadiobutton')
>>>> rb1.grid(row=0, column=0)
>>>> rb2 = ttk.Radiobutton(text='Hello dad', variable=buttonVar, value=2)
>>>> rb2.configure(style='BW.TRadiobutton')
>>>> rb2.grid(row=1, column=0)
>>>> root.mainloop()
>>>>
>>>> Sadly no borders :(  What have I missed?  Python 3.5.1 on Windows 10.
>>>>
>>>
>>> it seems there is no border on the radio button
>>>
>>>> style.layout('BW.TRadiobutton')
>>>
>>> [('Radiobutton.padding', {'children': [('Radiobutton.indicator',
>>> {'side': 'left', 'sticky': ''}), ('Radiobutton.focus', {'side':
>>> 'left', 'sticky': '', 'children': [('Radiobutton.label', {'sticky':
>>> 'nswe'})]})], 'sticky': 'nswe'})]
>>
>> for more help:
>> http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/styles.html
>
> For this particular problem not of much use, or I wouldn't be asking :(

This page has some of the info needed to get a radiobutton with a 
border, at least my machine.  See my answer to your other response.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy





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