get value of selected checkbox in kivy

Question

test.py

import sqlite3 as lite

from kivy.uix.screenmanager import Screen
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.core.window import Window

Window.size = (600, 325)

class UserGroup(Screen):

    def insert_data(self, arg1,arg2):
        print(arg1)
        print(arg2)


class FactUserGroup(App):

    def build(self):
        self.root = Builder.load_file('test.kv')
        return self.root


if __name__ == '__main__':
    FactUserGroup().run()

test.kv

<CustomLabel@Label>:
    text_size: self.size
    valign: "middle"
    padding_x: 5

<SingleLineTextInput@TextInput>:
    multiline: False

<GreenButton@Button>:
    background_color: 1, 1, 1, 1
    size_hint_y: None
    height: self.parent.height * 0.120

UserGroup

    GridLayout:
        cols: 2
        padding : 30,30
        spacing: 20, 20
        row_default_height: '30dp'

        Label:
            text: 'Male'
            text_size: self.size
            valign: 'middle'

        CheckBox:
            group: 'check'
            id : chk


        Label:
            text: 'Female'
            text_size: self.size
            valign: 'middle'

        CheckBox:
            group: 'check'

        CustomLabel:
            text: 'age'
            text_size: self.size
            valign: 'middle'

        SingleLineTextInput:
            id: age


        GreenButton:
            text: 'Ok'
            on_press: root.insert_data(chk.text,age.text)


        GreenButton:
            text: 'Cancel'
            on_press: app.stop()

How to get value of checkbox?I am getting value of age textbox using age.text but checkbox value i don't know?
When click on 'Ok' then How to get selected checkbox value and pass in root.insert_data.

Answer 1

You can get the checked state of a checkbox with its active property, so try change:

GreenButton:
    text: 'Ok'
    on_press: root.insert_data(chk.active ,age.text)

In this snippet chk.text was changed to chk.active which works for me properly.

See more reference on kivy checkboxes at https://kivy.org/docs/api-kivy.uix.checkbox.html

Hope it helps. Give it a try.

UPDATE:

So in order to be able to get the properties of each checkbox and the text input you can assign ObjectProperties to the widgets, and you can link them to your test.py file.

The modified sources:

test.py

from kivy.uix.screenmanager import Screen
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.lang import Builder
from kivy.core.window import Window
from kivy.properties import ObjectProperty

Window.size = (600, 325)

class UserGroup(Screen):
    male = ObjectProperty(None)
    female = ObjectProperty(None)
    age = ObjectProperty(None)
    
    def insert_data(self):
        if self.male.active:
            print('Male')
        elif self.female.active:
            print('Female')
        else:
            print('No gender selected')
        print(self.age.text)


class FactUserGroup(App):

    def build(self):
        self.root = Builder.load_file('test.kv')
        return self.root


if __name__ == '__main__':
    FactUserGroup().run()

In the .py file you can find a new import of ObjectProperty. Also you can see that three new properties were defined in UserGroup to interact with the view, and the modifications in UserGroup.insert_data are straightforward.

test.kv

<CustomLabel@Label>:
    text_size: self.size
    valign: "middle"
    padding_x: 5

<SingleLineTextInput@TextInput>:
    multiline: False

<GreenButton@Button>:
    background_color: 1, 1, 1, 1
    size_hint_y: None
    height: self.parent.height * 0.120

UserGroup

    male: chk_male
    female: chk_female
    age: txt_age

    GridLayout:
        cols: 2
        padding : 30,30
        spacing: 20, 20
        row_default_height: '30dp'

        Label:
            text: 'Male'
            text_size: self.size
            valign: 'middle'

        CheckBox:
            group: 'check'
            id : chk_male

        Label:
            text: 'Female'
            text_size: self.size
            valign: 'middle'

        CheckBox:
            group: 'check'
            id: chk_female

        CustomLabel:
            text: 'age'
            text_size: self.size
            valign: 'middle'

        SingleLineTextInput:
            id: txt_age


        GreenButton:
            text: 'Ok'
            on_press: root.insert_data()


        GreenButton:
            text: 'Cancel'
            on_press: app.stop()

In the .kv file the ids of the two checkboxes and the text input are renamed to chk_male, chk_female and txt_age respectively.

Also you can see that the object property links are defined at the beginning of the UserGroup section.

Hope it makes sense and match your requirements.