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pythoncheckboxtkinterstateappearance

tkk checkbutton appears when loaded up with black box in it

I create a check button / box, with the following call

x=ttk.Checkbutton(tab1,state='disabled',command = lambda j=i,x=k: fCheckButton(j,x))
x.state(['selected'])

The box appears fine and is selected, but it appears on load up, with a black box in it, which seems to have nothing to do with the state of it.

I have looked for reasons why, but can't actually find anyone with the same problem.

thanks

Solution

  • I've had a similar issue on Windows 7.

    After loading the app, one of my checkbuttons contained a filled square. But after clicking on it, it became a normal checkbutton:

    enter image description here

    In my case, it was because I had multiple checkbuttons sharing the same variable... After creating a separate Tk.IntVar() variable for each checkbutton, the problem disappeared.

    import Tkinter as Tk
import ttk

root = Tk.Tk()

checkVar = Tk.IntVar()
x = ttk.Checkbutton(root, variable=checkVar, text="check 1")
x.pack()

checkVar2 = Tk.IntVar()
y = ttk.Checkbutton(root, variable=checkVar2, text="check 2")
y.pack()

root.mainloop()