[Tkinter-discuss] Finding variable associated with checkbutton

[Guilherme Polo]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Cameron Laird<Cameron at phaseit.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:37:52PM -0700, VladPotrosky wrote:
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>> How do you find the variable which a checkbutton is linked to?
>> example:
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>> v = IntVar()
>> c = Checkbutton(master, text='Foo', variable=v)
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>> how do you then find out (with code) that v is linked to c?
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>  if v._name == c.cget("variable").string:
>    print "Ah-ha!  They *do* match."
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> Maybe there is a better way.  That's as far as I've thought about it.

I would opt to do the check str(v) == str(c['variable']) instead, less
intrusive.


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-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves