[issue24587] Tkinter stacking versus focus behavior on Windows

2015-07-13 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: As far as I can tell the sample program works as expected on OS X with either Cocoa Tk or X11 Tk, in both cases (as long as the event is changed to Button-1). I agree it's most likely a platform difference or platform bug in Tk behavior, rather than a Python issue

[issue24587] Tkinter stacking versus focus behavior on Windows

2015-07-12 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This tracker is for patches to the CPython repository. That includes tkinter, but does not include tk. Ned, you know much more about OS variations in tk behavior than. What do you think? (See initial post.) What happens on Mac. Should we ask Kevin W. about

[issue24587] Tkinter stacking versus focus behavior on Windows

2015-07-11 Thread Eugene K.
Eugene K. added the comment: It may not be a pure Python bug, but it's definitely at least a tk bug (which makes it a Python bug as long as tk is the canonical UI package in Python.) Workarounds are nice, but a workaround fixes my specific problem here and now, while leaving unknown numbers o

[issue24587] Tkinter stacking versus focus behavior on Windows

2015-07-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The issue is the interaction between stacking and focus. I am pretty sure that this is not a Python bug and that this issue should be closed. I suspect that the behavior is not even a tk bug, but simply how Windows' graphics system work. In any case, the atta