[issue964437] idle help is modal

[Roger Serwy]

Roger Serwy <roger.serwy at gmail.com> added the comment:

Those four lines are present just in case self.root is not initialized. 
Even if you short-circuit the behavior and set parent=self.top, the patch still works, only that closing the calling EditorWindow instance also closes the help dialog. 

I tested the patch against 3.3a0 on Ubuntu and 3.2.2 on Vista and it does attach to root, not self.top. 

It sounds like remnants of "_singledialog" are present in EditorWindow.py. Did you back out of the previous patch before applying help_nonmodal_revision.patch?

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