Making an About Box...

[Martin Franklin]

On Monday 10 Jun 2002 11:44 pm, you wrote:
> Hello.  I'd like to make an About Box using Tkinter.  I'm using a grid
> inside a Toplevel widget, but I don't really like this solution.  I'd like
> a window that did not have the minimize and maximize buttons, like the
> tkMessageBox derived boxes showinfo, showwarning, etc.  Is it possible to
> make a window that has this type of title bar and put my own widgets in it?


Take a look at the SimpleDialog.py file in the standard distribution 
(python2.2/lib-tk)  It uses  the transient() method that I'm not sure I 
understand (but thats just me!) anyhow it should be enough to get you started

Martin