in reply to Block Tk GUI while doing a process

> What is the best way to take the focus out of an entire Tk GUI while I am eating that a process (download) is terminated..

If I have not misunderstood your question, I think you can play with: $window->focus and iconify deiconify raise or withdraw and state (to query the current state) all methods of Toplevel methods.

An example available here

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