Force Focus in Tkinter

[annagel]

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