On Friday, August 8, 2014 8:22:47 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > I dont see anything about preventing access. > > > That came from his next post, in which he said "So that user cant do > any other operation.". > That's the preventing access bit. > > > Of course, if "Always On Top" is sufficient, then it's (a) easy, even > across platforms, and (b) not the UI annoyance that misused system > modality would be. There's plenty of use for always-on-top. >
Um... Ok Now I seem to remember this same questioner (??) asking a few months ago about: I have an excel program running for 20 minutes and I want to lock the machine or something like that And you proscribing similarly then :-) Yeah 'On top' can be useful. 'Modal' is a PITA. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list