When simple query dialogs (tkinter.simpledialog), message boxes
(tkinter.messagebox) or color choose dialog (tkinter.colorchooser)
are created without arguments master and parent, and the default
root window is not yet created, a new temporary hidden root window
will be created automatically. It will not be set as the default root
window and will be destroyed right after closing the dialog window.
It will help to use these simple dialog windows in programs which do
not need other GUI.
Previously, message boxes and color chooser created the blank root
window and left it after closing the dialog window, and query dialogs
just raised an exception.
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
* Tkinter functions and constructors which need a default root window
raise now RuntimeError with descriptive message instead of obscure
AttributeError or NameError if it is not created yet or cannot
be created automatically.
* Add tests for all functions which use default root window.
* Fix import in the pynche script.
This fixes the test failure with Tk 6.8.10 which is caused by changes to how Tk rounds the `from`, `to` and `tickinterval` arguments. This PR uses `noconv` if the patchlevel is greater than or equal to 8.6.10 (credit to Serhiy for this idea as it is much simpler than what I previously proposed).
Going into more detail for those who want it, the Tk change was made in [commit 591f68c](591f68cb38) and means that the arguments listed above are rounded relative to the value of `from`. However, when rounding the `from` argument ([line 623](591f68cb38/generic/tkScale.c (L623))), it is rounded relative to itself (i.e. rounding `0`) and therefore the assigned value for `from` is always what is given (no matter what values of `from` and `resolution`).
Automerge-Triggered-By: @pablogsal
On Windows use UTF-16 (or UTF-32 for 32-bit Tcl_UniChar) with the
"surrogatepass" error handler for converting to/from Tcl Unicode objects.
On Linux use UTF-8 with the "surrogateescape" error handler for converting
to/from Tcl String objects.
Converting strings from Tcl to Python and back now never fails
(except MemoryError).
