in reply to Setting the minimum size of an autosized Tk widget

Here's my best guess. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11139495
use warnings;
use Tk;
use Tk::BrowseEntry;

my $top = MainWindow->new;
my $f = $top->Frame;
my $c1 = $f->BrowseEntry(-label => "Misc1:", -width => 0);
$c1->pack(-fill => 'x', -expand => 1);
$c1->insert("end", "0");
$c1->insert("end", "LargeButWillStillFitInTopWidgetAsItExpands");

my $c2 = $f->BrowseEntry(-label => "Misc2:", -width => 0);
$c2->pack(-fill => 'x', -expand => 1);
$c2->insert("end", "0");
$c2->insert("end", "Large");
$c2->insert("end", "LargeEnoughToNotFitInTopWidget");

$f->Frame(-width =>160)->pack; # strut for min width...
$f->pack(-fill => 'x', -expand => 1);

MainLoop;

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Or maybe I don't understand your problem at all.

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Re^2: Setting the minimum size of an autosized Tk widget
by olgo (Sexton) on Dec 10, 2021 at 14:18 UTC
    Again, thanks for your effort!
    However, the proposed solution works only as long as there is just one "column" of widgets, I think.

    Now realizing that my minimum example was a bit too minimum... sorry about that. One thing I did not tell you about was that I am using the form geometry handler. I did not think it mattered but obviously it does.
    Basically, I am placing a number of widgets in a form, one following the other in both x and y dimensions.

    A better example of the code I am struggling with is thus the following (still minimized - single line of 2 BrowseEntrys here) code example (courtesy of tybalt89):
    use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;
use Tk::BrowseEntry;

my $top = MainWindow->new;
my $f = $top->Frame;
my $c1 = $f->BrowseEntry(-label => "Misc1:", -width => 0);
$c1->form(-fill => 'x');
$c1->insert("end", "0");
$c1->insert("end", "LargeButWillStillFitInTopWidgetAsItExpands");

my $c2 = $f->BrowseEntry(-label => "Misc2:", -width => 0);
$c2->form(-fill => 'x', -left => $c1);
$c2->insert("end", "0");
$c2->insert("end", "Large");
$c2->insert("end", "LargeEnoughToNotFitInTopWidget");

$f->Frame(-width =>160)->form(); # strut for min width...
$f->pack(-fill => 'x', -expand => 1);

MainLoop;

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      Simply strut each BrowseEntry, then... 

      #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11139495
use warnings;
use Tk;
use Tk::BrowseEntry;

my $top = MainWindow->new;
my $f = $top->Frame;

my $f1 = $f->Frame->form(-fill => 'x');
$f1->Frame(-width => 150)->pack; # strut
my $c1 = $f1->BrowseEntry(-label => "Misc1:", -width => 0,
  )->pack(-fill => 'x', -expand => 1);
$c1->insert("end", "0");
$c1->insert("end", "LargeButWillStillFitInTopWidgetAsItExpands");

my $f2 = $f->Frame->form(-fill => 'x', -left => $f1);
$f2->Frame(-width => 150)->pack; # strut
my $c2 = $f2->BrowseEntry(-label => "Misc2:", -width => 0,
  )->pack(-fill => 'x', -expand => 1);
$c2->insert("end", "0");
$c2->insert("end", "Large");
$c2->insert("end", "LargeEnoughToNotFitInTopWidget");

$f->pack(-fill => 'x', -expand => 1);

MainLoop;

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