How to get value of checkbox in tix

Question

i can get status of checkbox but How to Get value of checkbox in Tix.

from tkinter import tix

class View(object):
    def __init__(self, root):
        self.root = root
        self.makeCheckList()

    def makeCheckList(self):
        self.cl = tix.CheckList(self.root, browsecmd=self.selectItem)
        self.cl.pack()
        self.cl.hlist.add("CL1", text="C:/")
        self.cl.hlist.add("CL1.Item1", text="subitem1")
        self.cl.hlist.add("CL2", text="some folder")
        self.cl.hlist.add("CL2.Item1", text="test")
        self.cl.setstatus("CL2", "on")
        self.cl.setstatus("CL2.Item1", "on")
        self.cl.setstatus("CL1", "off")
        self.cl.setstatus("CL1.Item1", "off")
        self.cl.autosetmode()

    def selectItem(self, item):
        print (item, self.cl.getstatus(item))

def main():
    root = tix.Tk()
    view = View(root)
    root.update()
    root.mainloop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Expected output

if i click on checkbox c:/ then it should print c:/.I want the value of checkbox.

Output

furas · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-07T14:58:41.583

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It keeps all in hlist

Official documentation for more informations about hlist sends to tcl/tk documentation and then you can find

pathName item_cget entryPath col option

But it doesn't work as I expected

value = self.cl.hlist.item_cget('CL1.Item1', 0, 'text')

# _tkinter.TclError: unknown option "text"

You have to use "-text" instead of "text"

value = self.cl.hlist.item_cget('CL1.Item1', 0, '-text')

edited Dec 07 '17 at 14:58

answered Dec 07 '17 at 14:53

furas

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How to find parent path ? (pathName info parent entryPath ). This is given in document but i don't find any useful explanation about it. Can you tell me how to find parent path? – python_fan Dec 09 '17 at 08:37
doc shows code in tcl/tk language. In your code `pathName` means `self.cl.hist`, `entryPath` means `CLI1` or `CLI1.Item1`, etc. `parent` probably means `self.root` – furas Dec 09 '17 at 08:44
self.cl.hlist.info(self.root,'CL1') is it correct ? – python_fan Dec 09 '17 at 08:50
I think it is correct. Try it and you will see error or not :) – furas Dec 09 '17 at 08:53
It is giving error : TypeError: pack_info() takes 1 positional argument but 3 were given – python_fan Dec 09 '17 at 08:54
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i checked documentation and I see `parent` is bold - it means it will be function `info_parent()` in python. ` `parent_id = self.cl.hlist.info_parent('CL1')` – furas Dec 09 '17 at 08:56
Thank you very much...i got the answer – python_fan Dec 09 '17 at 09:00
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BTW: try `help(self.cl.hlist)` in code and it will display all functions - sometimes with description. – furas Dec 09 '17 at 09:22

How to get value of checkbox in tix

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