How to give Tkinter file dialog focus

Question

I'm using OS X. I'm double clicking my script to run it from Finder. This script imports and runs the function below.

I'd like the script to present a Tkinter open file dialog and return a list of files selected.

Here's what I have so far:

def open_files(starting_dir):
    """Returns list of filenames+paths given starting dir"""
    import Tkinter
    import tkFileDialog

    root = Tkinter.Tk()
    root.withdraw()  # Hide root window
    filenames = tkFileDialog.askopenfilenames(parent=root,initialdir=starting_dir)
    return list(filenames)

I double click the script, terminal opens, the Tkinter file dialog opens. The problem is that the file dialog is behind the terminal.

Is there a way to suppress the terminal or ensure the file dialog ends up on top?

Thanks, Wes

Answer 1

Try the focus_set method. For more, see the Dialog Windows page in PythonWare's An Introduction to Tkinter.