This happened in another application and I just checked and we also suffer from 
the same problem.

When we create a modal dialog we usually have a local grab that prevents the 
user to meddle with the main window (and others) before we dismiss the modal 
one.  We use this for preferences, target selection, attaching a target... 
things that we cannot proceed before they are settled.

The problem is that if these dialogs have a combobox and the combobox is 
expanded, a global grab is used by the combobox so that it is unposted 
regardless of where in the desktop you click (Tk menus do the same). 
Unfortunately once you grab the focus, any previous grab is lost (unless you 
take care of saving and restoring it, what the combobox doesn't seem to be doing).

This problem is common to the iwidgets:combobox and our own libgui combobox.

I have a possible fix to libgui that seems to solve our problem. Maybe Martin 
can double check that for us.

Here is the CL (patch attached):

	* library/combobox.tcl (build): New variable to save grabs.
	(widgetProc): Save and restore previous grabs.



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