[New-bugs-announce] [issue26377] Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.

[Sam Yeager]

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 close.
Similar results have been obtained with filedialog. 

OS: Mac OS X 10.10.5
Python IDE: IDLE 3.4.4
tkinter.TkVersion: 8.5
tkinter.TclVersion: 8.5
ActiveTcl: 8.6.4

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components: IDLE, Macintosh, Tkinter
messages: 260401
nosy: Sam Yeager, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Tkinter dialogs will not close if root window not packed.
versions: Python 3.4

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