Hey wise monks!

Can the source code for a module found on CPAN be changed?? I am trying to use Tk::DialogBox for a program but it doesn't let me place it on the screen where I want. I found Tk::XDialogBox which has the -from_x, -from_y options but it doesn't place the dialog box in front of my TOPLEVEL windows.

So I looked at the source for both and the Show method for XDIALOGBOX has #cw::Popup commented out! Well this is what I think makes it popup and go to the front. Here are the Show methods for both. I want to uncomment out that line and see if it works. Can this be done?

DIALOGBOX
Tk::DialogBox

sub Show {

    croak 'DialogBox: "Show" method requires at least 1 argument'
    if scalar @_ < 1;
    my $cw = shift;
    my ($grab) = @_;
    my $old_focus = $cw->focusSave;
    my $old_grab = $cw->grabSave;

    shift if defined $grab && length $grab && ($grab =~ /global/);
    $cw->Popup(@_);

    Tk::catch {
    if (defined $grab && length $grab && ($grab =~ /global/)) {
    $cw->grabGlobal;
    } else {
    $cw->grab;
    }
    };
    if (my $focusw = $cw->cget(-focus)) {
    $focusw->focus;
    } elsif (defined $cw->{'default_button'}) {
    $cw->{'default_button'}->focus;
    } else {
    $cw->focus;
    }
    $cw->Wait;
    &$old_focus;
    &$old_grab;
    return $cw->{'selected_button'};

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XDIALOGBOX
Tk::XDialogBox

sub Show {
    my ($cw, $grab) = @_;
    croak 'DialogBox: "Show" method requires at least 1 argument'
    if scalar @_ < 1;
    my $old_focus = $cw->focusSave;
    my $old_grab = $cw->grabSave;

#    $cw->Popup();
    $cw->update;

    Tk::catch {
        if (defined $grab && length $grab && ($grab =~ /global/)) {
        $cw->grabGlobal;
        } elsif(defined $grab && length $grab && ($grab =~ /nograb/)) 
+{
        # No Grab
        } else {
        $cw->grab;
        }
    };
    if (defined $cw->{'focus'}) {
    $cw->{'focus'}->focus;
    } elsif (defined $cw->{'default_button'}) {
    $cw->{'default_button'}->focus;
    } else {
    $cw->focus;
    }
    $cw->Wait;
    &$old_focus;
    &$old_grab;
    return $cw->{'selected_button'};
}

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In reply to DialogBox vs. XDialogBox by mikasue

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