Thanks for the reply and as it turns out no I don't think I really do want to do this. I started working with tkinter after banging my head against the wall for a while with wxwindows so the whole thing ended up being a last minute change so I am trying to get most at least of the bugs out on a tighter scedule than I planned. Basically coming from wx I had it in my head that I had to call a main loop or nothing would work and this meant threads which meant all kinds of extra headaches. In my desperation I dropped the whole thing and just started opening windows and to my utter suprise it worked.
Now I just initialize a root window in my import statement withdraw it and let the user use a picture viewer I made with a toplevel window, a file chooser, folder chooser, and color chooser. I am still having a couple problems though if anyone out there can shed some light I would be apreciative. First the ColorChooser for some reason this dialog does not open on its own. I am running on Mac and calling it gets my python icon bouncing but it does not appear till I go click on the icon. Second I am getting phantom window return with the folder and file picker. If I have used one of these before showing the picture viewer and then pop that up when I click on the picture window I also get the most recent file dialog (filenameopen or directoryopen) as an unresponsive window. Any advice on either of those problems would be great. Sorry about the intial post in my head I knew doing something like that would just be evil, but you start to think crazy when your sollution is too complicated for the problem. Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
