in reply to Perl::Tk Vertical scrollbar on the bottom by default?

You need the yview method, but that fails if there is nothing to be scrolled (if everything already fits), so you need some protection:

use strict; use warnings; use Tk; use Tk::Pane; my $mw = MainWindow->new (); $mw->geometry ("100x100"); $mw->Button (-text => "START", -command => \&start_computation)->pack; MainLoop; sub start_computation { my $progress = $mw->Toplevel (); my $sp = $progress->Scrolled ("Pane", Name => "Progress", -width => 200, -height => 100, -scrollbars => "ose", )->pack (-anchor => "nw", -fill => "both", -expand => 1); my $text = "Computation started...\n"; my $label = $sp->Label (-text => $text)->pack (); # doing several computation steps foreach my $step (1 .. 10) { sleep (1); $text .= "Step $step finished.\n"; $label->configure (-text => $text); my @pos = $sp->yview; $pos[1] < 1 and $sp->yview (moveto => 1.); $sp->update; } $text .= "\nComputation finished.\n"; $label->configure (-text => $text); $sp->yview (moveto => 1); $sp->update; $sp->Button (-text => "QUIT", -command => sub { exit; })->pack; } # start_computation

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn