Tkinter -- a window/dialog box that stays in front of everything else.

[Stephen Kloder]

"Thaddeus L. Olczyk" wrote:

> The best example I have of this is the NT task manager ( I think the
> 98 task manager is similar ). What I want is to be stepping through
> one piece of code. At some line ( that I have to discover ) a second
> piece of code will be executed. In that second piece of code I
> want to popup a dialog box which I can't miss, so it has to be in
> front of everything else. Can anyone help?

There must be a cleaner way to do this, but this seems to do the trick:
window.tk.call('focus','-force',window)
window.tk.call('grab',window)


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