Creating a function to make checkbutton with information from a list?

[Thomas Jansson]

Dear all

I am writing a program with tkinter where I have to create a lot of
checkbuttons. They should have the same format but should have
different names. My intention is to run the functions and the create
all the buttons with the names from the list.

I now the lines below doesn't work, but this is what I have so far. I
don't really know how call the element in the dict use in the for
loop. I tried to call +'item'+ but this doesn't work.

def create_checkbox(self):
self.checkbutton = ["LNCOL", "LFORM", "LPOT", "LGRID", "LERR",
"LCOMP"]
for item in self.checkbutton:
self.+'item'+Checkbutton = Chekcbutton(frame, onvalue='t',
offvalue='f', variable=self.+'item'+)
self.+'item'+Checkbutton.grid()

How should I do this?

Kind regards
Thomas Jansson

[half.italian]

On May 12, 11:04 am, Thomas Jansson <[e-mail]:

Dear all

I am writing a program with tkinter where I have to create a lot of
checkbuttons. They should have the same format but should have
different names. My intention is to run the functions and the create
all the buttons with the names from the list.

I now the lines below doesn't work, but this is what I have so far. I
don't really know how call the element in the dict use in the for
loop. I tried to call +'item'+ but this doesn't work.

def create_checkbox(self):
self.checkbutton = ["LNCOL", "LFORM", "LPOT", "LGRID", "LERR",
"LCOMP"]
for item in self.checkbutton:
self.+'item'+Checkbutton = Chekcbutton(frame, onvalue='t',
offvalue='f', variable=self.+'item'+)
self.+'item'+Checkbutton.grid()

How should I do this?

Kind regards
Thomas Jansson

You can use exec("self." + name + " = " + value) to do what you want,
but then you need to exec() each time you want to access the
variable. I think it is much better to create a class.

Here's what I came up with:

from Tkinter import *

class Window(Frame):
def __init__(self, parent=None):
Frame.__init__(self,parent=None)
self.names = ["LNCOL", "LFORM", "LPOT", "LGRID", "LERR", "LCOMP",
"Sean"]
self.checkbuttons = []

self.f = Frame(root)
for name in self.names:
self.checkbuttons.append(CButton(parent=self.f, name=name,
default="f"))

self.f.pack(side="top",padx=5, pady=5)
class CButton(object):
def __init__(self, parent=None, name=None, default=None):
self.name = name
self.parent = parent
self.variable = StringVar()
self.variable.set(default)
self.checkbutton = None
self.create_checkbox(name)

def create_checkbox(self,name):
f = Frame(self.parent)
Label(f, text=name).pack(side="left")
self.checkbutton = Checkbutton(f, onvalue='t', offvalue='f',
variable=self.variable)
self.checkbutton.bind("<Button-1>", self.state_changed)
self.pack()
f.pack()

def pack(self):
self.checkbutton.pack()

def state_changed(self, event=None):
print "%s: %s" % (self.name, self.variable.get())

if __name__ == '__main__':
root = Tk()
Window().mainloop()

~Sean

[Peter Otten]

Thomas Jansson wrote:

Dear all

I am writing a program with tkinter where I have to create a lot of
checkbuttons. They should have the same format but should have
different names. My intention is to run the functions and the create
all the buttons with the names from the list.

I now the lines below doesn't work, but this is what I have so far. I
don't really know how call the element in the dict use in the for
loop. I tried to call +'item'+ but this doesn't work.

def create_checkbox(self):
self.checkbutton = ["LNCOL", "LFORM", "LPOT", "LGRID", "LERR",
"LCOMP"]
for item in self.checkbutton:
self.+'item'+Checkbutton = Chekcbutton(frame, onvalue='t',
offvalue='f', variable=self.+'item'+)
self.+'item'+Checkbutton.grid()

How should I do this?

You /could/ use setattr()/getattr(), but for a clean design putting the
buttons (or associated variables) into a dictionary is preferrable.

def create_checkbuttons(self):
button_names = ["LNCOL", "LFORM", "LPOT", "LGRID", "LERR", "LCOMP"]
self.cbvalues = {}
for row, name in enumerate(button_names):
v = self.cbvalues[name] = IntVar()
cb = Checkbutton(self.frame, variable=v)
label = Label(self.frame, text=name)
cb.grid(row=row, column=0)
label.grid(row=row, column=1)

You can then find out a checkbutton's state with

self.cbvalues[name].get()

Peter

[Thomas Jansson]

On 13 Maj, 08:45, Peter Otten <[e-mail]:

Thomas Jansson wrote:

Dear all

I am writing a program with tkinter where I have to create a lot of
checkbuttons. They should have the same format but should have
different names. My intention is to run the functions and the create
all the buttons with the names from the list.

I now the lines below doesn't work, but this is what I have so far. I
don't really know how call the element in the dict use in the for
loop. I tried to call +'item'+ but this doesn't work.

def create_checkbox(self):
self.checkbutton = ["LNCOL", "LFORM", "LPOT", "LGRID", "LERR",
"LCOMP"]
for item in self.checkbutton:
self.+'item'+Checkbutton = Chekcbutton(frame, onvalue='t',
offvalue='f', variable=self.+'item'+)
self.+'item'+Checkbutton.grid()

How should I do this?

You /could/ use setattr()/getattr(), but for a clean design putting the
buttons (or associated variables) into a dictionary is preferrable.

def create_checkbuttons(self):
button_names = ["LNCOL", "LFORM", "LPOT", "LGRID", "LERR", "LCOMP"]
self.cbvalues = {}
for row, name in enumerate(button_names):
v = self.cbvalues[name] = IntVar()
cb = Checkbutton(self.frame, variable=v)
label = Label(self.frame, text=name)
cb.grid(row=row, column=0)
label.grid(row=row, column=1)

You can then find out a checkbutton's state with

self.cbvalues[name].get()

Peter

Both of you for your answers I ended up using the last one since it
seemed least complicated to new python programmer as my self. In the
case that anyone should ever read the post again and would like to see
what I ended up with:

self.button_names = ["LPOT", "LNCOL", "LFORM", "LGRID", "LERR",
"LCOMP", "LMAP", "LPUNCH", "LMEAN"]
button_state = ["t" , "t" , "t" , "t" , "f" ,
"f" , "f" , "t" , "f" ]
self.cbvalues = {}
for row, name in enumerate(self.button_names):
v = self.cbvalues[name] = StringVar() # It is a string variable so,
t or f can be store here
self.cb = Checkbutton(frame, onvalue="t", offvalue="f", variable=v)
label = Label(frame, text=name)
label.grid(row=row+15, column=0, sticky=W)
self.cb.grid(row=row+15, column=1, sticky=W)
if button_state[row] == "t":
self.cb.select()
else:
self.cb.deselect()

Kind regards
Thomas Jansson