[issue9384] Tkinter windows pop under the terminal in OSX

[Ned Deily]

Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> added the comment:

The placement of Tk windows is dependent on the version of Tk and platform window manager.  The Aqua Tk version on Mac OS X run as a separate GUI application process and so, as is customary, the focus and window stacking does not change when it is launched.  The platform-independent way to ensure the newly-created Tk window is on top is to set the "topmost" attribute on the root window:

   tk = _tkinter.create(os.environ['DISPLAY'], 'wish', 'Tk', 1)
   tk.call('update')
   tk.call('wm', 'attributes', '.', '-topmost', '1')
   ...

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/wm.htm#M10

I suppose we could add something like that to IDLE on OS X when it creates its initial shell window.

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assignee: ronaldoussoren -> ned.deily
nosy: +ned.deily
stage:  -> needs patch

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