Adding borders to ttk radiobuttons

Mark Lawrence

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Mar 30, 2016, 9:15:05 AM3/30/16

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I believe something like this should suffice to display borders around
the radiobuttons.

import tkinter as tk
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
root = tk.Tk()
style = ttk.Style()
style.configure('BW.TRadiobutton', borderwidth=5)
buttonVar = tk.IntVar()
rb1 = ttk.Radiobutton(text='Hello mum', variable=buttonVar, value=1)
rb1.configure(style='BW.TRadiobutton')
rb1.grid(row=0, column=0)
rb2 = ttk.Radiobutton(text='Hello dad', variable=buttonVar, value=2)
rb2.configure(style='BW.TRadiobutton')
rb2.grid(row=1, column=0)
root.mainloop()

Sadly no borders :( What have I missed? Python 3.5.1 on Windows 10.

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Mark Lawrence

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Mar 30, 2016, 10:45:59 AM3/30/16

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>I believe something like this should suffice to display borders around the radiobuttons.
>
> import tkinter as tk
> import tkinter.ttk as ttk
> root = tk.Tk()
> style = ttk.Style()
> style.configure('BW.TRadiobutton', borderwidth=5)
> buttonVar = tk.IntVar()
> rb1 = ttk.Radiobutton(text='Hello mum', variable=buttonVar, value=1)
> rb1.configure(style='BW.TRadiobutton')
> rb1.grid(row=0, column=0)
> rb2 = ttk.Radiobutton(text='Hello dad', variable=buttonVar, value=2)
> rb2.configure(style='BW.TRadiobutton')
> rb2.grid(row=1, column=0)
> root.mainloop()
>
> Sadly no borders :( What have I missed? Python 3.5.1 on Windows 10.
>

it seems there is no border on the radio button

> style.layout('BW.TRadiobutton')

[('Radiobutton.padding', {'children': [('Radiobutton.indicator', {'side': 'left', 'sticky': ''}),
('Radiobutton.focus', {'side': 'left', 'sticky': '', 'children': [('Radiobutton.label', {'sticky':
'nswe'})]})], 'sticky': 'nswe'})]

ast

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Mar 30, 2016, 10:56:19 AM3/30/16

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for more help:
http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/styles.html

Mark Lawrence

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Mar 30, 2016, 11:01:42 AM3/30/16

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That's as may be, but from Table 56 "ttk Radiobutton options not in
ttk.Radiobutton" here
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/web/ttk-Radiobutton.html
it says "borderwidth or bd - Configure this option using a style."

Mark Lawrence

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Mar 30, 2016, 11:14:55 AM3/30/16

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For this particular problem not of much use, or I wouldn't be asking :(

Terry Reedy

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Mar 30, 2016, 12:36:22 PM3/30/16

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On 3/30/2016 11:01 AM, Mark Lawrence via Python-list wrote:
> On 30/03/2016 15:45, ast wrote:
>>

> That's as may be, but from Table 56 "ttk Radiobutton options not in
> ttk.Radiobutton" here
> http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/web/ttk-Radiobutton.html
> it says "borderwidth or bd - Configure this option using a style."

Components depend on the theme. In some themes, Radiobutton does have a
border. On Windows 10, I ran

>>> for s in style.theme_names():
style.theme_use(s)
style.theme_use()
style.layout('TRadiobutton')

Theme names are ('winnative', 'clam', 'alt', 'default', 'classic',
'vista', 'xpnative') with 'vista'the default. Outputs were the same as above

'vista'
[('Radiobutton.padding', {'sticky': 'nswe', 'children':
[('Radiobutton.indicator', {'sticky': '', 'side': 'left'}),
('Radiobutton.focus', {'sticky': '', 'children':
[('Radiobutton.label', {'sticky': 'nswe'})], 'side': 'left'})]})]

except for this

'classic'
[('Radiobutton.highlight', {'sticky': 'nswe', 'children':
[('Radiobutton.border', {'sticky': 'nswe', 'children':
[('Radiobutton.padding', {'sticky': 'nswe', 'children':
[('Radiobutton.indicator', {'sticky': '', 'side': 'left'}),
('Radiobutton.label', {'sticky': 'nswe', 'side': 'left'})]})]})]})]

.theme_names() only displays the themes for the OS. I believe that
there is a way to access themes for other OSes (unix, mac) but don't
remember.

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Terry Reedy

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Mar 30, 2016, 12:40:25 PM3/30/16

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On 3/30/2016 11:14 AM, Mark Lawrence via Python-list wrote:

> For this particular problem not of much use, or I wouldn't be asking :(

This page has some of the info needed to get a radiobutton with a
border, at least my machine. See my answer to your other response.

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Mark Lawrence

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Mar 30, 2016, 7:41:54 PM3/30/16

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On 30/03/2016 17:35, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> .theme_names() only displays the themes for the OS. I believe that
> there is a way to access themes for other OSes (unix, mac) but don't
> remember.
>

Possibly http://bugs.python.org/issue17397 which refers to
http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-tkinter-discuss/3373/ ?