zentara's post was the most helpful. But I was hoping there was a way to just turn the auto resizer back on, not to have to force the window to a given size.
Example...
window is 100 tall. Containing a listbox. listbox is 25 tall. User wants so see more of the list box without scrolling, so they drag the window to 125. Widgets are setup so that the listbox expands to 50, and nothing else does. Then user checks a checkbox that causes the packing of an additional listbox in the gui. If the user hadn't manually resized the window, it would just expand to give space to the new listbox. But since they did, it will not change size, and the bottom of the form will run off the bottom of the window.
of course since I know the size of the new listbox, I could increase the size of the window, but that would mean keeping track of sizes for everything that can be packed and unpacked, which is a lot of things. Too many in fact to be rational to do.
all said and done, it sounds like this solution doesn't scale well to large apps. Randell

In reply to Re^2: perltk autoresize following users resize by rpelak
in thread perltk autoresize following users resize by rpelak

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