[Help] I can't for the life of me figure out how to add a checkbox

First of all Gooey is amazing. I discovered it two days ago and have already reduced a colleague’s two day job down to 5 MINUTES!

Anyway, I decided to add a checkbox, but keep getting the error list index out of range.

I have followed the Dev’s advice in a related issue [#148 ] word for word and letter for letter, but cannot seem to fix this.

All I want is a store_true check box, which by default is False.

My args:

@Gooey(program_name="Moneyback Calculator",  default_size=(710, 500))
def parse_args():
    parser = GooeyParser(description='Create Monthly MoneyBack Report')

    parser.add_argument('Transaction_File',
                        metavar='Transaction Files',
                        action='store',
                        widget='FileChooser',
                        help="Upload Your File Containing All Transactions Here")

    parser.add_argument('Smart_Rewards_File',
                        action='store',
                        metavar='Smart Rewards File',
                        widget='FileChooser',
                        help="Upload The anPost Smart Rewards File Here")
    
    parser.add_argument('Choose_File_Name',
                        action='store',
                        metavar='File Name',
                        help="Choose A File Name For Your Report")

    parser.add_argument('Output_Directory',
                        widget='DirChooser',
                        metavar='Output',
                        action='store',
                        help="Output Directory To Save Report")

    parser.add_argument('Action',
                    widget='CheckBox',
                    metavar='Completed File',
                    action='store_true',
                    default=False,
                    help="Open Excel File Once Complete?")

    args = parser.parse_args()
    return args

If I tick the box, I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\seanc\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\wx\core.py", line 3259, in <lambda>
    lambda event: event.callable(*event.args, **event.kw) )
  File "C:\Users\seanc\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\gooey\gui\containers\application.py", line 87, in onStart
    if config.isValid():
  File "C:\Users\seanc\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\gooey\gui\components\config.py", line 50, in isValid
    states = [widget.getValue() for widget in self.reifiedWidgets]
  File "C:\Users\seanc\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\gooey\gui\components\config.py", line 50, in <listcomp>
    states = [widget.getValue() for widget in self.reifiedWidgets]
  File "C:\Users\seanc\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\gooey\gui\components\widgets\bases.py", line 133, in getValue
    'cmd': self.formatOutput(self._meta, value),
  File "C:\Users\seanc\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\gooey\gui\components\widgets\checkbox.py", line 45, in formatOutput
    return formatters.checkbox(metatdata, value)
  File "C:\Users\seanc\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\gooey\gui\formatters.py", line 9, in checkbox
    return metadata['commands'][0] if value else None
IndexError: list index out of range

And if I don’t tick the box, nothing happens.

Help? I have googled everywhere and can’t find an answer.

If more code is needed I will add it. It needs to be anonymized, which is why I just posted the args in case that’s all that’s needed.

Thank you

[eladeyal-intel]

So you’re doing something which is confusing. An argument name such as ‘Action’ suggests a Positional Parameter (which is no optional); and on the other hand, store_true suggests an Optional Parameter (which may or may be not specified).

If you try the same with argparse instead of Gooey you will see it doesn’t work there as well.

So your solution is to add two dashes before the word Action.

[soliverc]

OK, good idea. Thanks for your help. Closing this issue now.