What programming language are you using? What GUI framework?

I guess you are using Win32::GuiTest? If so can you post the code you are using?

Help me.

Here you go.

#!/usr/bin/env perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More tests => 2;
use HTML::Parser::Simple::Attributes;

my @attr = (
    'type="checkbox" disabled="disabled"',
    'type="checkbox"'
);

my($parser) = HTML::Parser::Simple::Attributes -> new;

$parser->parse ($attr[0]);
ok $parser->get ('disabled');
$parser->parse ($attr[1]);
ok !$parser->get ('disabled');
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Well neither of those sound like Tk to me, so I must join my fellow monks in asking which GUI framework you are using?

BTW, in Tk, you would call the cget method on your Tk::Checkbutton widget and check the return value like this:

if ($checkbutton->cget('-state') eq 'disabled') {
  # the checkbox is currently disabled
}
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