Your example was unrunable by me, but here is a working snippet that adds tabs to a notebook from a menu. You may be looking for the Resize fix.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::NoteBook;

my %nbframes;

my $top = MainWindow->new;
$top->geometry("300x300");

my $menu = $top->Menu( -type => 'menubar' );

$top->configure( -menu => $menu );

$menu->Cascade(
    -label     => '~Selections',
    -tearoff   => 1,
    -menuitems => [
        [
            Button => 'dir',
            -command => [ \&addtab, 'dir' ]
        ],
        [
            Button => 'time',
            -command => [ \&addtab, 'time' ]
        ],
        [
            Button => 'ls',
            -command => [ \&addtab, 'ls' ]
        ],
        
        ],
);

my $nb = $top->NoteBook->pack(qw/-side top -fill both -expand 1/);

MainLoop;

sub addtab {
    my $choice = shift;
    print $choice, "\n";

     $nbframes{$choice}{'frame'} = $nb->add($choice, 
     -label => $choice,
     -raisecmd => sub{
                 $top->update;               
             },
     -createcmd => sub{
                 $top->update;               
             },
     );
     $nbframes{$choice}{'text'} = 
     $nbframes{$choice}{'frame'}->Scrolled('Text',-bg=>'white')->pack(
+); 
     $nbframes{$choice}{'text'}->insert('end',time);
     $nbframes{$choice}{'text'}->focus();

    $nb->Resize; #bug workaround  
    
}
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