type: boolean
This option sets the widget active. Since one button of the group must be active, a button can only set to non active by setting another button to active. This overrides the value of the associated variable. The associated variable is set accordingly.
type: string
User defined data which can be retrieved via the cget subcommand.
type: 1
This sets the focus to the widget. To unset the focus it must be set to another widet.
type: boolean (default: true)
Determines whether or not the toggle button is drawn on screen
type: string
Name of the widget, can be used to set options in an rc file.
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which is executed if a mouse button is press inside the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated: TABLE %% | % %w | widget name %t | type of event: one of buttonPress, button2Press or button3Press %x | x coordinate %y | y coordinate %b | button number %s | state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask) TABLE
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which is executed if a mouse button is released inside the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated: TABLE %% | % %w | widget name %t | type of event: always buttonRelease %x | x coordinate %y | y coordinate %b | button number %s | state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask) TABLE
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which is executed if the "popup-menu" signal is recieved, which is normally the case if the user presses Shift-F10. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated: %w by widget name.
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which is executed in the global scope if the "show-help" signal is recieved, which is normally the case if the user presses F1 or Ctrl-F1. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated TABLE %% | % %w | widget name %h | help type: either "whatsThis" or "tooltip" TABLE
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which is executed if the radio button is toggled. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted: TABLE %% | % %w | widget name. %v | value of the radio group TABLE
type: string
(Required option) Value to store in the button's associated variable whenever this button is selected.
type: ONEOF normal, half, none (default: normal)
Relief of the button.
type: boolean (default: 1)
Whether or not the item is sensitve to user input.
type: percent-string (default: "")
Text or icon of the button
type: string
Message that appear next to this widget when the mouse pointer is held over it for a short amount of time.
type: string
(Required option) Name of a (global) variable which is changed when the state of the button changes. All radio buttons with the same variable are in one group. If the variable does not exist and the option -active is not set to 0, it is created and set to the value of the first button in the group. If the variable does exist and its value corresponds to the value of a button in this group, this button is selected. If the value of variable is set externally (e.g. via the set), the corresponding button in the group is selected and its associated command executed.
type: boolean (default: 1)
Whether or not the item is visible.
A radio button is like a checkbutton, but in a group of radio buttons only one can be selected. All radio buttons which use the same variable form a group. The value of the group is the value of the active radio button. The variable contains always the group value.
id cget option
Returns the value for one option. The option may have any of the values accepted by configure.
id configure [-option value...]
Configures the widget. Option may have any of the values accepted on creation of the widget.
id delete
Deletes the widget and the associated tcl command.
id onToggled
Executes the command given by the -onToggled option of the active item in the group.
set box [gnocl::box -orientation vertical]
$box add [gnocl::radioButton -text "%__Cats" -onValue cats -variable animal -onToggled {puts "%v == $animal"}]
$box add [gnocl::radioButton -text "%__Dogs" -onValue dogs -variable animal -onToggled {puts "%v == $animal"}]
$box add [gnocl::radioButton -text "%__Birds" -onValue birds -variable animal -onToggled {puts "%v == $animal"}]
gnocl::window -title "Radio Buttons" -child $box
results in