A program I wrote pops up with a Tk window as an error dialog. Works nicely although I've noticed it often doesn't bring itself to the VERY front of all my other applicaton windows. As an error dialog this isn't desirable. Below is the code for the error dialog which I call from main. The "withdraw/popup" methods centre it on the screen, which I want to keep. The "focus" method I thought would bring it to the front but no such luck. I've also tried "raise". Does anyone know how to force it to the front on a Win32 system? Thanks

sub dying {
    my ($error) = @_;
    
    if (!$error) {
        $error = "(none given)";
    }
    my $text;
    $text .= "\n\nTARsync Error:\n\nFailed during:\n$message\n\nReason
+:\n$error";
    if ($poperr) {
        my $box = new MainWindow(-title => "ZIPsync failed!",
                    -bg => 'yellow',
                    -bd => 4,
                    -relief => 'ridge');
        $box->overrideredirect(1);
    
        my $label = $box->Label(
                    -textvariable=> \$text,
                    -bg=> 'yellow',
                    )->pack(-fill=>'both',
                        -padx => 40,
                        );
        Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExclamation');
        my $ok = $box->Button(-text => "OK",
                    -command => [sub{$box->destroy;
                            exit;
                            } ]
                    )->pack(-padx => 20,
                        -pady => 20
                        );
    
        $box->withdraw;
        $box->Popup;
        $box->focus;
        MainLoop;
}
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