> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:30:02 -0600 > Bob Greschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The Checkbutton widget >> >> Var = IntVar() >> Checkbutton(Frm, text = "Destroy", variable = Var) >> >> wants Var to be an IntVar, but it also works if Var is a StringVar >> and you set() Var to "0" and "1". Is there a possibility that this >> will be "fixed" some time in the future, or would it be safe to keep >> Var as a StringVar, or is it not even really broken (I don't know >> Tcl/ >> Tk which I assume is allowing this?)? In my case it would be nice to >> keep "0" or "1" in a MySQL database column and have a Tkinter form >> with a Checkbutton do the right thing without having to change the >> column to an int, or keep converting back and forth between chars and >> ints for that one column to keep from running into trouble in the >> future. >> > On Aug 29, 2007, at 02:37, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I am not a tcler myself, but I think the integers are being > converted to strings > anyway when they are passed to tcl, so 1 and "1" might be > equivalent here. > If you want to be even more safe, you might want to use the > checkbutton's > onvalue and offvalue options, like onvalue="1", offvalue="0" .
onvalue?! offvalue??!! Every time I look in Grayson's Python and Tkinter programming I DON'T see something. :) I never even knew those existed and I must have looked at that section 100 times over the years. Thanks! Bob _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
