Force Focus in Tkinter

[Martin Franklin]

annagel wrote:
> Thanks for the reply and as it turns out no I don't think I really do
> want to do this.  I started working with tkinter after banging my head
> against the wall for a while with wxwindows so the whole thing ended up
> being a last minute change so I am trying to get most at least of the
> bugs out on a tighter scedule than I planned.  Basically coming from wx
> I had it in my head that I had to call a main loop or nothing would
> work and this meant threads which meant all kinds of extra headaches.
> In my desperation I dropped the whole thing and just started opening
> windows and to my utter suprise it worked.
> 
> Now I just initialize a root window in my import statement withdraw it
> and let the user use a picture viewer I made with a toplevel window, a
> file chooser, folder chooser, and color chooser.  I am still having a
> couple problems though if anyone out there can shed some light I would
> be apreciative.  First the ColorChooser for some reason this dialog
> does not open on its own.  I am running on Mac and calling it gets my
> python icon bouncing but it does not appear till I go click on the
> icon.  Second I am getting phantom window return with the folder and
> file picker.  If I have used one of these before showing the picture
> viewer and then pop that up when I click on the picture window I also
> get the most recent file dialog (filenameopen or directoryopen) as an
> unresponsive window.
> 
> Any advice on either of those problems would be great.  Sorry about the
> intial post in my head I knew doing something like that would just be
> evil, but you start to think crazy when your sollution is too
> complicated for the problem.
> 
> Andrew
> 

Andrew,

Glad to hear you got it working, could you post some example code that
shows these other problems?


Martin