I'm using line wrap to display variable length text in Tk::TableMatrix. It works fine, lines are wrapped as needed, and the line wrap adjusts automatically when the columns are resized.
The problem is that row height can only be set manually. I can set all rows to be 2 lines in height, but I can't set them to be as high as it takes to display all text in each row. As a result I either get a bunch of text that's not visible, or an awful lot of wasted empty space.
If I were to use a monospace font and set a fixed column width, maybe I could write some code that calculates the height required for each row and sets it, but I want to avoid fixed column widths if at all possible.
Is there a solution? My googling turned up no answers except this, which is for TkTable in Tcl/Tk and I can't make much sense of it:

set maxr [.table cget -rows]
 set maxc [.table cget -cols]
 for {set r 1} {$r < $maxr} {incr r} {
   set maxh 1
   for {set c 0} {$c < $maxc} {incr c} {
     if {[set n [llength [split [.table get $r,$c] \n]]]>1 && $maxh<$n
+} {
       set maxh $n
     }
   }
   .table height $r $maxh
 }

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In reply to Auto-adjust row height to line wrap in Tk-Tablematrix by elef

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