Make a Tkinter Toplevel active

Question

I am trying to make a Toplevel widget that is the active window on the screen (I want it so that if you press Enter, it exits the window. I already h

Answer 1

...however, I have to click in the window first so that it becomes active, and then it works.

I just encountered this problem and while I was researching a solution, I found this thread. I'm using Windows 7 Professional. All I did was call both grab_set() and focus() and it solved the problem for me. You already have finalRoot.grab_set(), just add:

finalRoot.focus()

It worked in my case.