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Eric N
Eric N

Reputation: 1

Genericaly retrieve text value from radio button

I want to be able to retrieve the text value from a radio button.

For example:

first  = Radiobutton(frame, text=name, variable=V, value=0)
second = Radiobutton(frame, text=name, variable=V, value=1)
third  = Radiobutton(frame, text=name, variable=V, value=3)

buttonPressed = V.get()

This will give me the value, but I am trying to figure out how to get the text value. Because my button are created from a generic list of attributes from an XML doc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4169

Answers (2)

matsjoyce
matsjoyce

Reputation: 5844

You don't need to use an IntVar, use a StringVar instead:

>>> root=tkinter.Tk()
>>> V=tkinter.StringVar()
>>> name = "abc"
>>> first = tkinter.Radiobutton(root, text=name, variable=V, value=name)                                                      
>>> first.pack()                                                                                                               
>>> V.get()
'abc'                                                                                                                          
>>>

That way, V.get() is the same as the text for the selected Radiobutton.

The other way is to make an list of the Radiobuttons, like [first, second, third]. Then you can find the text by radiobuttons[V.get()]["text"], where the variable V is initialized by IntVar() (V = IntVar()), as the Radiobutton can be accessed like a dictionary (equivalent to config) to retrieve the text value. However, this does involve maintaining the list.

Upvotes: 1

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385970

To get the value of an attribute of a widget, use the cget method:

first_text = first.cget("text")

Upvotes: 1

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