Tkinter: Calling Destroy() During Resize Resets The Window To Original Shape

In a Tkinter GUI, during window resizing at runtime, I've noticed that the removal of a widget or a frame, using my_widget.destroy(), resets the window size to the original shape (

Solution 1:

Hey I know it's a long time, but I just ran into this in python 3.7 on windows 10 and my workaround is to use: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41930736/7281120

        if win32api.GetKeyState(0x01) >= 0:
            for widget in self.winfo_children():
                widget.destroy()

to prevent destruction when the mousebutton 1 is pressed. It's a hack but it appears to work.