How do I make it so a two top level widgets can't be open simultaneously?

Question

I have a top level widget that is created when a button is pressed. How do I make it so when that same button is pressed again, while the top level widget is still open it simply moves the top level widget into focus?

Answer 1

Imagine you have the following method in a class. This method is called when you press the button. You will also have an instance attribute defined in the __init__ method: self.toplevel = None.

def button_press(self):
    if self.toplevel is None:
        self.toplevel = ... # another method to create toplevel widget
    else:
        # set focus to self.toplevel
        # you can use self.toplevel.deiconify() if self.toplevel is minimised
        # also look at self.toplevel.lift() to bring the window to the top

You will also need to reset self.toplevel to None when the toplevel widget is destroyed.

Also look at the focus_set method of widgets. You may have to set the take_focus attribute to True for a toplevel widget. But maybe you want to set the focus to a particular widget (eg a Textbox) on the toplevel widget.