On Jan 26, 12:53 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > I only see "self.wait_window(self)" in the Dialog base class and not in > SimpleDialog, which is what I though you were talking about. It is the > last line of Dialog.__init__.
Yes. In the module "tkSimpleDialog" the class "Dialog" is what i am referring to. Sorry for the confusion. > It appears that the intention is that all > configuration be done in the body and button_box methods which are > called earlier. Yes exactly. And this works well most of the time. However there are many times where you may want to create a dialog with say a Label. And you do not want to hard code the string displayed on the label. However you cannot change the string once you initialize the dialog because it enters a "modal wait loop". So what i am proposing is that we change tkSimpleDialog to be like any other modal dialogs out there. We move the modal code into a show method and use the dialog like i suggested. I can send you a patch if you would be interested. My patch does break backward compatibility. However we can make it compatible somehow. Or an alternative approach would be to create a new dialog module and then depreciate tkSimpleDialog. Let me know on or off list if you are interested. > As far as I know, anything contributed to the stdlib has been licensed > by the author to be redistributed under the Python license and can be > patched by the developers. (This is one reason for people to not > contribute their code to the stdlib.) I don't understand what that means. Are you suggesting that contributing code is bad? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
