how to create independent message boxes we will create out tkinter message boxes as stand-alone top-level gui windows sowhy would we wish to create an independent message boxone reason is that we might customize our message boxes and reuse them in several of our guis instead of having to copy and paste the same code in to every python gui we design fig undesired output of message box we still need title and we definitely want to get rid of this unnecessary second window the second window is caused by windows event loop we can get rid of it by suppressing it