Dear monks

I thought it should be easy to achieve this...but after reading both Entry and ListBox PODs I could not found any solution. I am creating a mega widget with an Entry and a ListBox. What I need is to get the size (better in pixels, but characters would go too) and set the same width to the ListBox.

I seem to fail already by the first task, reading the width of the Entry. A simple

$EntryWidget->cget('-width');

Does not seem to help. I have the impression I get a standard "20" which may be the value at creation time (but not the real width of the widget which is managed by pack).

Maybe this task cannot be achieved, or maybe I am looking at the wrong approach. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

In reply to Tk Entry and ListBox width by Anonymous Monk

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