Re: [Tile-dev] Using ttk::dialog with a 'withdrawn' root window

[Damon C. <da...@tc...>]

> 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.

    This is where I thought a little helper proc could come in handy for 
people.  Leave the parent as blank by default but provide an easy way 
for users to get the "best guess" parent.  Meh.  I don't really care.  
I'll write my code to do my thing.  I'm just trying to help the other 
guy out. 0-]

Damon