[issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Looking at #26376 again, I think Ned's msg260413 identified Sam's problem. "Also note that installing ActiveTcl 8.6.x has no effect if the tkinter in use was linked with an 8.5 version of Tcl/Tk, as the one you are using apparently was. Make sure you have i

[issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Is this problem still present? I've used the following script to test: import tkinter from tkinter import messagebox root = tkinter.Tk() box = messagebox.showinfo("Title", "A Message") # -- EOF --- With this script I can close the message box without prob

[issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

Sam Yeager added the comment: Updated script with the adding 'parent-Rootwin' to messagebox() arguments. The issue persists. Following advice in #26376: Ran script on Terminal. The issue disappears, and everything works normally. Running through IDLE, the issue returns. -- ___

[issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Try adding 'parent=rootWin' to the messagebox call. Otherwise, I expect that this is, as far as cause, a duplicate of #2637, in which case my comment https://bugs.python.org/issue26376#msg260544 applies. -- components: -IDLE nosy: +terry.reedy _

[issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

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[issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

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[issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

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[issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

New submission from Sam Yeager: Using the following code, the messagebox will not close, leaving it on top of all other open windows: from tkinter import * rootWin = Tk() messagebox.showinfo("Title", "foo") If the root window contains a widget (Label, Entry, Button, etc.), the dialog can clo