[issue39177] In tkinter, simple dialogs, askstrings, etc. with flexible coordinates and no viewable parent.

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Issue42685 improved positioning of dialog windows. Now they are centered at the parent window or screen if there is no parent. It corresponds to behavior of Tk message boxes. Issue42721 made dialogs be usable without default root window. Temporary hidden

[issue39177] In tkinter, simple dialogs, askstrings, etc. with flexible coordinates and no viewable parent.

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[issue39177] In tkinter, simple dialogs, askstrings, etc. with flexible coordinates and no viewable parent.

New submission from Dominic Mayers : Currently, it's not possible to center or change the coordinates in anyway of an askstring, askfloat or askinteger dialog in simpledialog.py. One can see this by looking at the code: if parent.winfo_viewable(): self.transient(parent)