[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.6, Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy versions: +Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

Mark Roseman added the comment: Terry, when you get a chance, it would be great if you could have a look at demodalize.patch (or if you can suggest someone else who would be good to take a peek at it). This is sort of the baseline for the uifactory, and touches a lot of things in small ways

[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

Mark Roseman added the comment: The attached demodalize.patch (which includes the changes from the previously posted decouple_config.patch) changes both the settings dialog and the about dialog to be non-modal. There's a new class UIFactory which is responsible for launching these kinds of

[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

Mark Roseman added the comment: I've attached decouple_config.patch, which removes some internal knowledge about EditorWindow from configDialog. This is a step towards making the preferences dialog non-modal (and also to launching either the current dialog, or a new ttk-dependent one). The

[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

Mark Roseman added the comment: Incidentally (and this I would say is a definite bug) because the modal doesn't fully work on the Mac, you can actually create multiple copies of the config dialog! -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I don't know. I do not thing that any option settings affect the dialog box itself, Someone could switch modal off and experiment. It would certainly make it easier to change something, Apply, and then try it out. The is one place I would not feel obligated

[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

New submission from Mark Roseman: Is there any reason the IDLE settings dialog is modal? (Actually while it is modal on Windows and Linux, on OS X you can actually switch back to the main window while the settings dialog is up, but you can't actually type etc. into it!) While I could

[issue24760] IDLE settings dialog shouldn't be modal

Mark Roseman added the comment: Ok, I'll do some playing around with that one over the next few days, and see if anything comes up. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24760