On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:04:50 -0700
"Greg Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The esteemed Fredrik Lundh responded:
> 
> > well, they sure are modal on my machine.  maybe you could post an example, 
> > tell
> > us how it behaves on your machine, and tell us how you expected it to 
> > behave.
> 
> I, too, have seen the file dialogs behave modally on my machine---but not 
> always.
> 
> This following has a top-level window with a menu item that launches a child. 
>  The child has two browse buttons.  On my machine I can use the browse 
> buttons to bring up about eleven simultaneous file dialogs.  What I had hoped 
> for was that the first file dialog to appear would be modal, i.e. the browse 
> buttons would be inactive until the file dialog was dismissed.
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> import os
> import Tkinter
> import tkMessageBox
> import tkFileDialog
> import sys
> 
> # constants for NewPhx widgets
> CONFIG_ROW = 0
> SOURCEDIR_ROW = 1
> ENTRY_WIDTH = 64
> LABEL_WIDTH= 21
> 
> class NewPhx:

   ...<snipped>...

On my box (linux) the file dialog is modal, however because you didn't specify 
a parent to the file  dialog
it's modal to the root window and not to the child-toplevel, so I can lift the 
toplevel over the file dialog,
but as expected the toplevel's buttons do not respond. Maybe it's a 
system/Tk-version problem that the grab
doesn't work for you? Anyway, you could try to pass "parent=self.top" to 
askopenfilename() and see what happens.

I hope this helps

Michael
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