Place a listener to the close event of the "child" window inside your "main" window. The listener will work, even if it is disabled. In the following example I assume that the win ref is a reference of your "main" window while "child" is the one of your child.
openWin: function(child) {
child.on('close', reactivate, this);
child.show();
this.disable();
},
reactivate: function() {
this.enable();
}