I'm writing some Perl/Tk code where I want something other than user input to change the visible portion of a Scrolled widget. I've tried something like the following (which doesn't work); 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;

my $main = MainWindow->new;

my $list = $main->Scrolled('Listbox', -scrollbars => 'e',
                           -selectmode => 'single')->pack;

foreach my $i (1..100) {
   $list->insert('end', "item $i");
}

my $button = $main->Button(-text => "Scroll to Bottom of List",
                           -command => \&scroll_to_bottom)->pack;
MainLoop;

sub scroll_to_bottom {
   my ($first, $last) = $list->Subwidget("yscrollbar")->get;

   # set to end of list
   my $winsize = $last - $first;
   $first = 1.0 - $winsize;
   $last = 1.0;
   $list->Subwidget("yscrollbar")->set($first, $last);
}

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When the button is pressed, The scrollbar jumps to the bottom like I want, but the visible portion of the Listbox stays the same. Playing with the thumb of the scrollbar a little will make the Listbox suddenly jump to the end where I want it.

It seems that when the scrollbar's appearance is updated, its callback (which would adjust the position of the widget it's controlling) isn't called.

I'm hoping I won't have to do my own custom scrollbar to get this functionality; the standard Scrolled is really close.

Does anyone know how I can make this work?

In reply to Invoking scrolling externally on a Perl/Tk Scrolled widget by forrest

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