Hello, all,

At work we're in the process of transferring to a new set of systems. The old systems are Solaris 8 machines, with Perl 5.6 and Tk400.202. The new systems are a Linux machines. The Linux machines have a corporate provided Perl 5.8.8, and we have the distribution provided Perl 5.10. Both of the perls installed have Tk804.027. When we started testing the new systems, though, we started having problems, which seem localized to programs using Tk. The major problem that we have that we can't seem to find a solution to is window resizing. For example, in the following code, the window resizes at the beginning, but when the 'Continue' button is selected, the window immediately shrinks, but never expands after the next set of frames are packed. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Tk;
use Tk::Label;
use Tk::Button;
use Tk::Menubutton;
use Tk::Menu;
use Tk::LabEntry;
use Tk::Dialog;
use Tk::DialogBox;
use Tk::Frame;

$mw = MainWindow->new();
get_job();
$mw->update;
MainLoop();

sub get_job
  {
    $wjLabEntry = $mw->Frame(-bg => "wheat1")->pack();
    my $jobentry = $wjLabEntry->Entry(-width       => 10)->pack(-side 
+=> 'left');
    
    $mode_buttons = $mw->Frame(-bg => "wheat1")->pack();
    my $DoButton = $mode_buttons->Button(-text => 'Continue', -command
+ => sub {&do_setup()}
                    )->pack (-side => 'left', -expand => 1);
    
    my $QuitButton = $mode_buttons->Button(-text => 'Quit', -command =
+> sub {Tk::exit}
                      )->pack (-side => 'left', -expand => 1);
    
    my $HelpButton = $mode_buttons->Button(-text => "Help", -command =
+> sub {&HelpTxt}
                      )->pack (-side => 'left', -expand => 1);
    
    $jobentry->focus;
    $jobentry->bind('<Return>',sub {$DoButton->focus});
  }

sub do_setup
  {
    if (Exists $wjLabEntry)
      {
        $wjLabEntry->destroy;
        $mode_buttons->destroy;
        $wjLabEntry = $mw->Frame(-bg => "wheat1")->pack();
        $mode_buttons = $mw->Frame(-bg => "wheat1")->pack();
        my $QuitButton = $mode_buttons->Button(-text => "Terminate", -
+command => sub {Tk::exit}
                          )->pack (-side => 'left', -expand => 2);
    
        my $HelpButton = $mode_buttons->Button(-text => "Help", -comma
+nd => sub {&HelpTxt}
                          )->pack (-side => 'left', -expand => 2);
    
        $HelpButton->bind('<e>',\&HelpTxt);
    $mode_buttons->update;
        $mw->update;
      }
    
    $PartStep = $mw->Frame(-bg => "wheat1")->pack(-fill => 'both');
    my $DrillButton = $PartStep->Button(-text => 'DRILL/ROUT', -comman
+d => sub {&getDrill();&CleanUp();}
                       )->pack(-side => 'left');
    my $ToolButton = $PartStep->Button(-text => 'TOOLING', -command =>
+ sub {&getTool();&CleanUp();}
                      )->pack(-side => 'left');
    my $AllButton = $PartStep->Button(-text => 'All', -command => sub 
+{&getTool();&CleanUp();}
                     )->pack(-side => 'right', -fill => 'x', -expand =
+> 1,);
    $mw->update;
  }

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Anyone have any idea why that code shouldn't resize the window?

In reply to Problems after upgrading both Perl and Tk by monksp

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