Question

How do I build a dialog box that take away focus from the parent window and force user for an input? Unless a user provide an input or press a cancel button, the parent window won’t be accessible. So it’s kind of a message box but with an input field. I found top-level method to create a top-level window but I couldn’t find a method to stop user from accessing parent window. Thanks

Answer 1

I’m not positive, but it looks like if you make a new class inherited from TopLevel but attach it to a parent, then call self.transient(parent) you should have something close to what you’d like. I am assuming that it’ll block input to the parent window as well.

The main trickery is done in the constructor; first, transient is used
to associate this window with a parent window (usually the application
window from which the dialog was launched). The dialog won’t show up
as an icon in the window manager (it won’t appear in the task bar
under Windows, for example), and if you iconify the parent window, the
dialog will be hidden as well

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