Re: [Tile-dev] Using ttk::dialog with a 'withdrawn' root window

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Damon Courtney wrote:
>> This appears to be a common pitfall with [ttk::dialog] --
>> you're not the first to run into this.  I was considering
>> changing things so that [ttk::dialog]s that are direct
>> children of "." are nontransient by default -- what do
>> others think?
> 
>     Do what BWidgets does.  If the parent is "." and that window is 
> withdrawn, make the window non-transient.  Or, considering that dialogs 
> are drawn immediately (in BWidgets they are created but not drawn until 
> "$w draw" is called), if ANY parent window is not visible, make the 
> dialog non-transient.  One would usually assume that if you're using 
> ttk::dialog that you want it to appear immediately no matter what the 
> parent is.

Er ... actually, I haven't had my morning coffee yet.  No +1 to Joe's 
suggestion.  How about -parent "" by default, and let the user specify 
it?  This is more in tune with how core widgets work.  This is also what 
I did with tklib's widget::dialog (which, IMO, should replace all of the 
above eventually ;) ).

Jeff