[issue964437] idle help is modal

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

Download, tested on W7, 3.2.2. Started help, brought to front, stopped, restarted, in both shell and edit window and all fine *except* when I closed edit window with help attached, which closes help also, and tried to open help in shell, idle 'silently' crashes. Reproduced same after restart idle. If I reopen an edit window, and reopen help from an edit window, it works ok. So the side-effect close seems to leave something behind that is a problem for reopening from shell but not from another edit window.

I am also still curious why window opens too narrow and if that can be fixed.

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