Tkinter: How to set ttk.Radiobutton activated and get its value?

Question

1) I need to set one of my three ttk.Radiobuttons activated by default when I start my gui app.
How do I do it?

2) I also need to check if one of my ttk.Radiobuttons was activated/clicked by the user.
How do I do it?

rb1 = ttk.Radiobutton(self.frame, text='5', variable=self.my_var, value=5)
rb2 = ttk.Radiobutton(self.frame, text='10', variable=self.my_var, value=10)
rb3 = ttk.Radiobutton(self.frame, text='15', variable=self.my_var, value=15)
self.rb1.grid(row=0)
self.rb2.grid(row=1)
self.rb3.grid(row=2)

If any of those answers helped you, kindly mark them as answer, it will help reduce the 'unanswered questions' line — Alok, Sep 01 '15 at 04:16

Alok · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-04T05:05:01.967

use self.my_var.set(1) to set the radiobutton with text='5' as the default RadioButton.

To get the selected one you have to call a function

rb1 = ttk.Radiobutton(self.frame, text='5', variable=self.my_var, value=5,command=self.selected)
rb2 = ttk.Radiobutton(self.frame, text='10', variable=self.my_var, value=10,command=self.selected)
rb3 = ttk.Radiobutton(self.frame, text='15', variable=self.my_var, value=15,command=self.selected)
self.rb1.grid(row=0)
self.rb2.grid(row=1)
self.rb3.grid(row=2)

def selected(self):
     if self.my_var.get()==5:
        "do something"
     elif self.my_var.get()==10:
        "do something"
     else:
        "do something"

Maybe this has changed since 2013, but to get `text='5'` you should use `self.my_var_set(5)` - it's the radiobutton's value you use for activation. Anyway - your example is still helpful in 2021 ;-) — Gerd, Sep 02 '21 at 20:16

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '14 at 09:17

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As for your first question, a convenient and straightforward way is to call the invoke method:

rb2.invoke()

Note that this also runs any command associated with this button.

See the Ttk::radiobutton invoke documentation.

answered Oct 16 '14 at 09:17

fbmd

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this was very useful!! – estephan500 Jun 17 '18 at 08:08

Sébastien S. · Answer 3 · 2017-07-13T12:17:55.777

I'm just adding something to Gogo's answer but i can't comment because i don't have enough reputation.

Add self.my_var=tk.IntVar() before the radiobuttons or your program will not know the variable. see The Variable Classes for more informations

for exemple, in my case i need a StringVar(): this works for python 3.* change tkinter to Tkinter for python 2 (i'm not 100% sure tho)

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

class XFile_Page(tk.Frame):
    ...

    self.joinType = tk.StringVar()
    self.rbLeft = ttk.Radiobutton(self.frameRadioButtons, text='left', variable=self.joinType, value='left',command=self.RadioBtnSelected)
    self.rbRight = ttk.Radiobutton(self.frameRadioButtons, text='right', variable=self.joinType, value='right',command=self.RadioBtnSelected)

    self.rbLeft.grid(row=0)
    self.rbRight.grid(row=1)

    #select the rbLeft radiobutton
    self.rbLeft.invoke()

    def RadioBtnSelected(self):
        print(self.joinType.get())

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 16:33

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You can use rb1.state['selected'] to set the default as rb1 and self.my_var.get() to get the value (i.e the text variable) of the radiobutton.

answered Jul 08 '14 at 16:33

Aaditya M Nair

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