How do I disable a parent widget

michaelg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
How do I make a child widget to lock a parent, lets say the parent activate a browser and I don't want to get browsers all over the place. (not to mention managing them)
Thanks.
Michael

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Re: How do I disable a parent widget by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 02, 2003 at 07:31 UTC
What are you working with? Tk? wxPerl? Is it maybe a CGI script? As stated, noone can answer your question. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re: How do I disable a parent widget by michaelg (Beadle) on Oct 02, 2003 at 09:07 UTC
Hi I'm working on Tk , I managed to "-status => disabled" the button that activate the browser , I pass it to the sub that build the browser and there at one of my buttons command statements I disable it . but what I really want to do is to disable the parent widget , and not part of it . michaelg	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: How do I disable a parent widget by castaway (Parson) on Oct 02, 2003 at 14:50 UTC
Maybe you can show us how you are activating the browser. What you are looking for is a modal dialog (or the similar), which prevents other parts of your program from being used until it has been closed again. C.	[reply]