displaying Tk widgets

FM has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,
I moved my code from a destktop to a laptop and when I run the application, some elements are running into each other. I have fixed the size of the window (minsize) and I place all the widgets in it except for the notebook. Here is the beginning of my code:

my $mw=MainWindow->new();
$mw->minsize(qw(545 470));
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Then, the widgets are created:

my $notebook=$mw->NoteBook(-font=>"Helvetica 12")->pack(-expand => 1, 
+-fill => 'both');
my $page1=$notebook->add('page1', -label=>'Case Information');

my $generall=$page1->Label(-text=>'GENERAL INFORMATION', -font=>"Times
+ 12")->place(-x=>160, -y=>2);
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Any idea of what is going on?
Thanks for letting me know!
FM

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Re: displaying Tk widgets by rcseege (Pilgrim) on Oct 29, 2005 at 00:17 UTC
Is there a particular reason you've chosen to use the place geometry manager? It might seem that absolute placement is a Good Thing, however it ends up causing more problems than it solves. This includes dealing well with different fonts, resolutions, etc. I've found that there's very little I can't accomplish by sticking with either pack or grid, or layouts that use a combination of both (group of gridded widgets within a frame that is packed with other widgets, for example). Rob	[reply]
Re: displaying Tk widgets by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 28, 2005 at 19:16 UTC
Try smaller fonts, or even comment out the -font lines to use the default. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^2: displaying Tk widgets by ww (Archbishop) on Oct 28, 2005 at 21:15 UTC
further re Zentara's: Your notebook may well run with a different (higher) resolution than your desktop machine. In that case, fixing font sizes in the manner you've used can be problematic, if the width of the widgets is fixed.	[reply]
Re^3: displaying Tk widgets by FM (Acolyte) on Oct 28, 2005 at 23:52 UTC
How would I check on the resolution? And how could I change it? The first thing I did was try to change the screen resolution so it might fix it, but it did not work! Thanks again, FM	[reply]