Question

After going through the PyGTK libraries and tutorials, I haven’t managed to find an exact answer I’m looking for, or maybe I’m just doing something wrong…

Anyway, I’m learning PyGTK and Glade, I’m in the process of scripting a simple downloader application. The GUI of the application has three check boxes, and then a submit button.

What I’m trying to do is get the status of the check boxes after the submit button is pressed, that way I can continue my script to download applications based on whether the checkboxes are true or false.

Here’s what I have so far. (Still very early stages and learning from mistakes)

Python Script:

import sys
try:
    import pygtk
    pygtk.require("2.0")
except:
    pass
try:
    import gtk
    import gtk.glade
except:
    sys.exit(1)


class GladeTest:

    def __init__(self):

        #Set the Glade file
            filename = "gui.glade"
            builder = gtk.Builder()
            builder.add_from_file(filename)
            builder.connect_signals(self)

        #Create our dictionay and connect it
            dic = { "btnSubmit_clicked" : self.btnSubmit_clicked,
            "chkboxDropbox_toggled" : self.chkboxDropbox_toggled,
            "MainWindow_destroy" : gtk.main_quit }

        def btnSubmit_clicked(self, widget):
            self.button = gtk.ToggleButton("chkboxDropbox_toggled")
            status = self.button.get_active()
            print status

        def chkboxDropbox_toggled(self, widget):
            print ""




if __name__ == "__main__":
    hwg = GladeTest()
    gtk.main()

Glade 3 XML (gui.glade):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<interface>
  <requires lib="gtk+" version="2.24"/>
  <!-- interface-naming-policy project-wide -->
  <object class="GtkAction" id="action1"/>
  <object class="GtkWindow" id="MainWindow">
    <property name="visible">True</property>
    <property name="can_focus">False</property>
    <property name="title" translatable="yes">MainWindow</property>
    <property name="resizable">False</property>
    <property name="window_position">center</property>
    <signal name="destroy" handler="MainWindow_destroy" swapped="no"/>
    <child>
      <object class="GtkVBox" id="vbox1">
        <property name="visible">True</property>
        <property name="can_focus">False</property>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkLabel" id="label1">
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="can_focus">False</property>
            <property name="label" translatable="yes">Downloader</property>
            <attributes>
              <attribute name="style" value="normal"/>
              <attribute name="size" value="300"/>
            </attributes>
          </object>
          <packing>
            <property name="expand">False</property>
            <property name="fill">True</property>
            <property name="position">0</property>
          </packing>
        </child>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkCheckButton" id="chkboxDropbox">
            <property name="label" translatable="yes">Dropbox</property>
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="can_focus">True</property>
            <property name="receives_default">False</property>
            <property name="use_action_appearance">False</property>
            <property name="draw_indicator">True</property>
            <signal name="toggled" handler="chkboxDropbox_toggled" swapped="no"/>
            <signal name="activate" handler="chkboxDropbox_active" swapped="no"/>
          </object>
          <packing>
            <property name="expand">False</property>
            <property name="fill">True</property>
            <property name="position">1</property>
          </packing>
        </child>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkCheckButton" id="chkboxPython">
            <property name="label" translatable="yes">Python</property>
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="can_focus">True</property>
            <property name="receives_default">False</property>
            <property name="use_action_appearance">False</property>
            <property name="draw_indicator">True</property>
            <signal name="toggled" handler="chkboxPython_checked" swapped="no"/>
          </object>
          <packing>
            <property name="expand">False</property>
            <property name="fill">True</property>
            <property name="position">2</property>
          </packing>
        </child>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkCheckButton" id="chkboxChrome">
            <property name="label" translatable="yes">Google Chrome</property>
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="can_focus">True</property>
            <property name="receives_default">False</property>
            <property name="use_action_appearance">False</property>
            <property name="draw_indicator">True</property>
            <signal name="toggled" handler="chkboxChrome_checked" swapped="no"/>
          </object>
          <packing>
            <property name="expand">False</property>
            <property name="fill">True</property>
            <property name="position">3</property>
          </packing>
        </child>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkButton" id="btnSubmit">
            <property name="label" translatable="yes">Download/Run</property>
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="can_focus">True</property>
            <property name="receives_default">True</property>
            <property name="use_action_appearance">False</property>
            <signal name="clicked" handler="btnSubmit_clicked" swapped="no"/>
          </object>
          <packing>
            <property name="expand">False</property>
            <property name="fill">True</property>
            <property name="position">4</property>
          </packing>
        </child>
      </object>
    </child>
  </object>
</interface>

Either I can’t find the proper method of calling for the status, or I have found it and I’m just using it wrong… Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

you just need to call “get_active” method of gtk checkbox, get object of check button from glade file and call “get_active” method on click event of submit button.

here, code snippet to be more descriptive:

class GladeTest:

    def __init__(self):

        #Set the Glade file
        filename = "gui.glade"
        self.builder = gtk.Builder()
        self.builder.add_from_file(filename)
        self.builder.connect_signals(self)

        #Create our dictionay and connect it
        dic = { "btnSubmit_clicked" : self.btnSubmit_clicked,
        "chkboxDropbox_toggled" : self.chkboxDropbox_toggled,
        "MainWindow_destroy" : gtk.main_quit }

    def btnSubmit_clicked(self, widget):
        chkbt_chrome = self.builder.get_object("chkboxChrome")
        print "ACTIVE--",chkbt_chrome.get_active()
        # do same for rest of the check buttons

        self.button = gtk.ToggleButton("chkboxDropbox_toggled") # if used for check box status then there is no need for this button.

        status = self.button.get_active()
        print status

    def chkboxDropbox_toggled(self, widget):
        print ""


if __name__ == "__main__":
    hwg = GladeTest()
    gtk.main()

hope, it would help you.