[CL] wanted a scrolling [canvas] model to which he could refer others.  
Mightily distressed that the first eight instances he came across in books and 
on the [Web] all were complicated or do things end-users consistently call "stupid" 
([scrollbar]s don't really behave properly, and so on)--or both!--
he offers this example as an alternative:
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    set height 400
    set width  600
    set borderwidth 2

    set hscroll .hscroll
    set vscroll .vscroll
    set canvas .c

    scrollbar $hscroll -orient horiz -command "$canvas xview"
    scrollbar $vscroll               -command "$canvas yview"
    canvas $canvas -relief sunken -borderwidth $borderwidth \
                              -width $width -height $height \
                              -xscrollcommand "$hscroll set" \
                              -yscrollcommand "$vscroll set"
        # Ensure that window resizings retain scroll bars.
    pack $hscroll -side bottom -fill x
    pack $vscroll -side right  -fill y
    pack $canvas  -side right  -fill both  -expand 1
  # Somebody want to express the above in "grid"?
  # That'd be good practice.

        # Put something visible on the canvas 
        # so we have a sense of what we're seeing.
    $canvas create line 0 0       $width $height
    $canvas create line 0 $height $width 0
    $canvas configure -scrollregion [$canvas bbox all]

It will be interesting to see when '''its''' first fault emerges.
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[ulis], 2003-07-05: If you need [grid] in place of [pack]:

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        # Ensure that window resizings retain scroll bars.
    grid $canvas  -row 0 -column 0 -sticky nswe
    grid $vscroll -row 0 -column 1 -sticky ns
    grid $hscroll -row 1 -column 0 -sticky ew
    grid rowconfig . 0 -weight 1
    grid columnconfig . 0 -weight 1
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Important!  The ''usage'' of this scrolling canvas is that one
creates
[http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/canvas.htm#M45] [widget]s
onto the canvas, rather than managing them as children.
In particular, if you're trying to 

    frame $canvas.subframe ...

rather than

    $canvas add rectangle ...

you're headed for trouble. 

[MG] Aug 21 2007 - Does anyone have a minimal example of a scrollable canvas meant for containing other widgets? I'm trying to put a frame inside a canvas to scroll it, but my lack of [canvas]-use in the past is coming back to haunt me, and I can't find any good, small examples of how to do it...

''[MG], a few minutes later'' Discovered what the problem I was having was, oddly enough on the [canvas] page - my widgets weren't children of the canvas, and so stuck out over it. Making all the widgets displayed on the canvas children of it solved the problem (thanks DKF!).

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