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guis and data

Creating radio buttons in tkinter

You need to create three radio buttons in the interface, one for each of the
depots. This is how you might do that in tkinter:

You don't need the
Entry field anymore.

Label(app, text = "Depot:").pack()
depot=Entry(app)
This is the text
depot.pack() that will appear
next to the radio
Radiobutton(app, text = "Cambridge, MA").pack()
button.
Radiobutton(app, text = "Cambridge, UK").pack()
Radiobutton(app, text = "Seattle, WA").pack()
Label(app, text = "Description:").pack()

You need to remove the depot Entry widget and replace it with three
Radiobutton widgets, one for each of the valid depots. The text given to
each widget will be the text that appears alongside the radio button in the
interface.
What about reading which radio button has been selected? For now, you just
need to create a prototype of the interface, so there’s no need to change any
of the code that saves records. That’s something we can deal with later.

Let’s demo the new interface to the guys at Head-Ex.

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