How to get tkinter messagebox to appear in front of toplevel

Question

I'm writing a program with Python 3 and tkinter in which toplevels initially appear centered in the root window. If a toplevel isn't moved out of the way, it covers up any messagebox that may arise to display an error message. The messagebox appears in front of the root window, but behind the toplevel. Simple example from the command line to show what happens:

>>> from tkinter import *
>>> from tkinter import messagebox
>>> root = Tk()
>>> texto = Toplevel(root) # (Manually put toplevel in front of root)
>>> messagebox.showinfo(message='Does this work?')

Is there a way to get the messagebox to appear in front of the toplevel?

Have you tried making the messagebox a child of the toplevel? — Bryan Oakley, Mar 28 '16 at 22:46
I'm using Linux Mint 17.3. I wasn't sure how to make the messagebox a child of the toplevel. I tried this, but it didn't work: `>>> mess = messagebox.showinfo(texto, message='Does this work?')` The messagebox still appeared underneath the toplevel. — McClamrock, Mar 28 '16 at 22:58
`messagebox.showinfo("title", "message",master=texto)` would be how you specify it as a child of `texto` — Tadhg McDonald-Jensen, Mar 28 '16 at 23:58
Slightly modified (`messagebox.showinfo(message='Does this work'), master=texto)`, it does work! Just turn your comment into an answer and I'll accept it. :o) — McClamrock, Mar 29 '16 at 00:19

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 31 '18 at 13:19

10

Instead of master I tried by using: "parent" as this one Messagebox with top level as Master and it worked for me!

messagebox.showinfo("title", "message",parent=texto)

answered Jan 31 '18 at 13:19

Cecilia Barboza

107
1
6

Works on Ubuntu 22.04 with Python 3.10, using master=texto does not work – Jack Griffin Jan 20 '23 at 05:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '22 at 04:52

0

Just define the parent of messagebox

messagebox.showinfo(parent=textto, message="blah")

answered Apr 15 '22 at 04:52

Jessie Wilson

69
2
7

How to get tkinter messagebox to appear in front of toplevel

2 Answers2

Linked