[Tkinter-discuss] Unexpected Checkbutton behaviour

[Gerardo Juarez]

Oooh I see! I knew it was a small thing I was overlooking. I read in 
the reference "Tkinter variable", but I never gave it the meaning it 
really had. Thanks everyone!

Gerardo

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Gerardo Juarez wrote:
> 
> 
> > I'm having problems with a widget, which  I've been able to isolate to the 
> > following example:
> > 
> > from Tkinter import *
> > 
> > def display():
> >     global x
> >     print x
> > 
> > root = Tk()
> > x = 0
> > check = Checkbutton(root, variable=x)
> > check.pack()
> > button = Button(text='Display variable', command=display)
> > button.pack()
> > root.mainloop()
> > 
> > As far as I understand the reference, when I click the button, the
> > variable 'x' should reflect the state of the check button
> 
> you must use a Tkinter variable object, not an arbitrary Python variable:
> 
> http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/checkbutton.htm#patterns
> 
> (note that in Python, the parameter expressions are *always* evaluated 
> before the function is actually called, so "variable=x" will pass a zero 
> to the checkbutton.  you cannot pass references to variable names in 
> Python, only references to objects).
> 
> </F>
> 
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