Re: [Tile-dev] Using ttk::dialog with a 'withdrawn' root window

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

Damon Courtney wrote:
>     Well, but most all dialogs should be transient to something.  That's 
> just the way a dialog should be.  At the very least, we could provide a 
> helper proc to get the "best guess" transient parent.  I typically do 
> something like this:
> 
> proc ttk::parentWindow { {toplevel .} } {
>     return [lindex [wm stackingorder $toplevel] end]
> }
> 
> ttk::dialog -parent [ttk::parentWindow]

I think there are 2 misconceptions here ...

1. all dialogs should be transient.

No, there are many cases for startup dialogs where you have no parent.

2. Tk should "best guess" everything.

I think this is an acceptable area to expect the user to provide their 
own -parent to get the behavior, if desired.

For those reasons, I went with a user-required -parent.

Jeff