Positioning out of order st.form widgets

[Roger]

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As described in the image, I want ticking a checkbox to not rerun the script (and this requires st.form as I understand).

1. Using st.form context manager → StreamlitAPIException: With forms, callbacks can only be defined on the st.form_submit_button. Defining callbacks on other widgets inside a form is not allowed. This is because the magnifying glass has a callback.

2. So I tried without the context manager:

form = st.form(key="query_results", clear_on_submit=True)
form.form_submit_button(label="Submit")
...
item_col1, item_col2, item_col3 = st.columns(
    [0.3, 0.69, 0.01]
)
with item_col1:
    st.button(
        f"🔍",
        key=button_key,
        on_click=update_image_search_options,
    )
with item_col3:
    form.checkbox(
        label="Export to disk",
        key=f"checkbox_{random_id}_{sku_config}",
        value=False,
        label_visibility="collapsed",
    )

but this just moves all the checkboxes together.

Is there an easy solution to this?

[Roger]

@Roger

StreamlitAPIException: With forms, callbacks can only be defined on the st.form_submit_button. Defining callbacks on other widgets inside a form is not allowed.

Ended up having to wrestle the st.session_state and not use st.form at all.

1. Create a callback on the on_click of the checkbox to update the st.session_state.checkbox_interaction to True. The intention is to use this to skip any expensive operations (or anything that you don’t want to trigger during the re-run)
2. At the end of the section change st.session_state.checkbox_interaction to False, in case the user interacts with non-checkbox related widgets. I thought about attaching st.session_state.checkbox_interaction → False to all the non-checkbox related widgets directly, but that would require too many changes, at least the trade off is not worth the effort… for now.