Hi, I'm running ActiveState Perl 5.6.0 with a very recent version of Tk downloaded by PPM in the last fortnight.

My problem is that I can do this:

my $widget=$toplevel->Listbox(-height=>0,-width=>0)->pack;

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And I get a listbox which automatically resizes when the user resizes the $toplevel window. However, when I do this:

my $widget=$toplevel->Scrolled('Listbox', -scrollbars=>'e',-height=>0,
+ -width=>0)->pack;

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I get a listbox that fits neatly into the $toplevel window, but won't resize when I resize the $toplevel window.

I dove into the code for Tk, but it's pretty complicated (to me), and I couldn't even find where to start tweaking. I thought I found a routine in widget.pm, but when I started mucking with it, nothing changed. Does anyone have a solution (apart from fixed size listboxes)? I'd like to avoid binding a subroutine to the resize event on the parent window (if I can even do that in Tk).

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In reply to Packing scrolled listboxes in Tk by jepri

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