Re^3: perl/Tk and expandable widgets

[zentara]

I would say you are "pushing the edge" of Tk's abilities. My first inclination would be to reconfigure the header buttons after you know how wide they should be. You could scan the column for the widest entry, then reconfigure the header button text to be padded to that width. Maybe you would have to packForget and repack too. Sounds like you need to experiment a bit. :-) You can reconfigure the headers of an HList to be different text, but like I said earlier, you will run into the problems of the -width specification being different amoung different widgets. Maybe if you confine everything to a certain font?

[joelr]

This thread is old, but...
I have used a modified HList I found on CPAN called Tk::HListplus that worked quite well for this problem.,
It uses (as an example):

$widget->header('create', 0, -itemtype => 'resizebutton', -text => 'Pa
+th');

It allows you to double click on a header to make the column about 1 character wide (so you can grow it again) and also permits the mouse to grab the right side of the header box to adjust the column width.
I also don't see a problem with initally having the column the correct size for the contents. I use:

$widget->columnwidth($column_number,'');

to make it automatic.
I would recommend using:

    $widget = $host_box->Scrolled(qw/HListplus
        -scrollbars osoe/);

so that you have enough room regardless of the host_box size.
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