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GUI Programming With Python - Radiobuttons in Tkinter

Radio buttons allow a user to select one option from a set of predefined choices. Each radio button is associated with a variable, and selecting a radio button changes the variable's value. Creating radio buttons in Tkinter involves defining the options as a list of tuples with text and value, then looping through to generate each button with its variable, command, and value set appropriately. The indicator can optionally be removed to have radio buttons that are just text boxes.

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GUI Programming With Python - Radiobuttons in Tkinter

Radio buttons allow a user to select one option from a set of predefined choices. Each radio button is associated with a variable, and selecting a radio button changes the variable's value. Creating radio buttons in Tkinter involves defining the options as a list of tuples with text and value, then looping through to generate each button with its variable, command, and value set appropriately. The indicator can optionally be removed to have radio buttons that are just text boxes.

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10/7/2014 GUI Programming with Python: Radiobuttons in Tkinter

TKINTER

RADIO BUTTONS

A radio button, sometimes called option button, is a


graphical user interface element of Tkinter, which allows
the user to choose (exactly) one of a predefined set of
options. Radio buttons can contain text or images. The
button can only display text in a single font. A Python
function or method can be associated with a radio button.
This function or method will be called, if you press this
radio button.

Radio buttons are named after the physical buttons used


on old radios to select wave bands or preset radio stations. If such a button was pressed, other buttons would
pop out, leaving the pressed button the only pushed in button.

Each group of Radio button widgets has to be associated with the same variable. Pushing a button changes the
value of this variable to a predefined certain value.

SIMPLE EXAMPLE WITH RADIO BUTTONS

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()

v = IntVar()

Label(root,
text="""Choose a
programming language:""",
justify = LEFT,
padx = 20).pack()
Radiobutton(root,
text="Python",
padx = 20,
variable=v,
value=1).pack(anchor=W)
Radiobutton(root,
text="Perl",
padx = 20,
variable=v,
value=2).pack(anchor=W)

mainloop()

The result of the previous example looks like this:

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IMPROVING THE EXAMPLE

In many cases, there are more than two radio buttons. It would be cumbersome, if we have to define and write
down each button. The solution is shown in the following example. We have a list "languages", which
contains the button texts and the corresponding values. We can use a for loop to create all the radio buttons.

from Tkinter import *

root = Tk()

v = IntVar()
v.set(1) # initializing the choice, i.e. Python

languages = [
("Python",1),
("Perl",2),
("Java",3),
("C++",4),
("C",5)
]

def ShowChoice():
print v.get()

Label(root,
text="""Choose your favourite
programming language:""",
justify = LEFT,
padx = 20).pack()

for txt, val in languages:


Radiobutton(root,
text=txt,
padx = 20,
variable=v,
command=ShowChoice,
value=val).pack(anchor=W)

mainloop()

The result of the previous example looks like this:

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INDICATOR

Instead of having radio buttons with circular holes containing white space, we can have radio buttons with the
complete text in a box. We can do this by setting the indicatoron option to 0, which means, that there will be
no separate radio button indicator.

We exchange the definition of the Radiobutton in the previous example with the following one:

Radiobutton(root,
text=txt,
indicatoron = 0,
width = 20,
padx = 20,
variable=v,
command=ShowChoice,
value=val).pack(anchor=W)

We have added the option indicatoron and the option width.

© 2011 - 2014 Bernd Klein, Bodenseo; Design by Denise Mitchinson adapted for python-course.eu by Bernd Klein

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