tkMessageBox dialog help

[Nathan]

Hi,

I've been testing the standard dialog boxes in tkMessageBox under IDLE.
If I type for example, tkMessageBox.askyesno('test', 'test'), the dialog box
comes up fine but another window also appears. I'm guessing this is the
parent window of the message box. If I click on either of the yes/no
buttons, i get a True/False on the std out and the dialog box closes but the
parent window remains and seems to hang. This is on WinXP by the way. Is
this normal behaviour? How do I get the dialog box appearing without the
parent window or is this not possible?

Thanks,
Nathan.

 

[Harlin Seritt]

Nathan,

From what I've seen I'm afraid this is the way it is. If you call an

instance of tkMessageBox and you don't have a 'master' Tk instance
running, it will create its own.

Still, I'm sure with a bit of voodoo you can hide the self created tk
window while showing the message box. If you find a more elegant way to
accomplish this, please post back !

Harlin Seritt

 

[garyr]

Hi,

I've been testing the standard dialog boxes in tkMessageBox under IDLE.
If I type for example, tkMessageBox.askyesno('test', 'test'), the dialog box
comes up fine but another window also appears. I'm guessing this is the
parent window of the message box. If I click on either of the yes/no
buttons, i get a True/False on the std out and the dialog box closes but the
parent window remains and seems to hang. This is on WinXP by the way. Is
this normal behaviour? How do I get the dialog box appearing without the
parent window or is this not possible?

Thanks,
Nathan.

See the post to this NG by Jeff Epler on Apr 12, Tkinter "withdraw"
and "askstring" problem

I think you can find the answer to your question there.