[Tkinter-discuss] Checkbutton indicatoron ignored on Mac

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:16:31 -0700
"Russell E. Owen" <rowen at uw.edu> wrote:

> In article <508FF0E3.5080000 at codebykevin.com>,
>  Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 10/29/12 4:39 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > It also shows up in tcl (e.g. paste this into wish):
> > > checkbutton .b -text "Foo" -indicatoron 0
> > > pack .b
> > 
> > I see the difference here between Tk-Cocoa and 8.4/Carbon. Cocoa does 
> > indeed ignore the -indicatoron flag.  Not sure yet if this is a bug
> > that can be fixed or not, but I'll take a closer look at the
> > underlying code.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> As another, possibly irrelevant datapoint: the themed checkbutton
> widget does not have the indicatoron option. So I figure I'd better get
> used to not using that option, but it's a pity: I find bi-state buttons
> very useful.

in ttk you can use style='Toolbutton' instead, see
http://wiki.tcl.tk/17899

Regards

Michael

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