How do I make a dialog box that waits for user response?

When you tkSimpleDialog.askinteger, the program stalls and waits for user input. What are the basics of writing my own method that would have the same effect? I want to make the same kind of dialog box, I just want to be a开发者_高级运维ble to request more information. The problem that I'm having is that when I open the new window using Tk.Toplevel, the program does not wait for user input the way tkSimpleDialog.askinteger does.

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First off, if you can use some other widget system like PyGtk or PyQt, you should seriously consider it. Tkinter is ancient, and the newer libraries have a lot more functionality (read: more things you don't have to reinvent). I've used PyGtk and like it a lot more than Tkinter, which I used in the old Python 1.x days.

That said, in Tkinter, you need to do this:

widget.wait_window(window)

This ties up the event loop waiting for the user to dismiss the dialog.

Reference: http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/dialog-windows.htm