I have some Tk::BrowseEntry widgets which are populated with different sized entries from really small to rather large.
I am using pack geometry manager since my surrounding widgets are of varying size and type (Progressbars, buttons etc). Thus, using another geo manager like grid is not possible in this case (I know that this is one solution to the problem).
My problem is that the top (LabEntry) subwidget, which presents the currently selected entry, gets too small when displaying really small values.
I have realized that I can either set a dynamic width using -width => 0 (works perfectly except for small values being barely visible) or a fixed width (works perfectly except large values are cropped).
Is there any way of stating a minimum size to the top widget so that it does not autosize smaller than this value, or is there some other mechanism I could use here?
I have tried to find the place in the Tk source where the autosizing occurs but to no avail.
Thanks for any help.
Simple code example for showing the issue below... 
use Tk;
use Tk::BrowseEntry;

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

my $c2 = $f->BrowseEntry(-label => "Misc2:", -width => 10);
$c2->pack;
$c2->insert("end", "0");
$c2->insert("end", "Large");
$c2->insert("end", "LargeEnoughToNotFitInTopWidget");

$f->pack;

MainLoop;

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In reply to Setting the minimum size of an autosized Tk widget by olgo

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