Any way to add an item across merged columns in an hlist?

boleary has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using an Tk:HList as a pretty effective editor for some of my tools
A simple one I've built uses 4 columns with one widget in each column like :

label:[entry]:label:[entry]
[entry]:label:button:[entry]
label:[entry]:label:[entry]
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One of the limitations I keep running into is that I need to keep the width of each column artificially small so that I can always see all 4 columns
I'd like to be able to add a row where an entry starts in column 1 and spans all 4 columns similar to what I can do with -columnspan=>2 in the grid geometry manager

label:[entry]:label:[entry]
label:[entry]:lable:[entry]
 
[         merged entry    ]
[           ]:[           ]
         =merged label=
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Is there any trick/setting I might be missing to allow me to do this?

I've looked at the Hlist.pm module and from what I can see, most of the work is done behind the scenes in c-code in tixHList.c so I'm already out of the depth I want to swim in :)

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Re: Any way to add an item across merged columns in an hlist? by Anonymous Monk on May 06, 2020 at 01:10 UTC
I'd like to be able to add a row where an entry starts in column 1 and spans all 4 columns similar to what I can do with -columnspan=>2 in the grid geometry manager Hi That is a no https://grep.metacpan.org/search?qd=Tk&source=metacpan&q=columnspan See https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Tk-TableMatrix/pod/TableMatrix.pod#Row/Col-Spanning https://metacpan.org/source/CERNEY/Tk-TableMatrix-1.23/demos/debug https://metacpan.org/source/CERNEY/Tk-TableMatrix-1.23/demos/SpreadsheetHideRows	[reply]
Re^2: Any way to add an item across merged columns in an hlist? by boleary (Scribe) on May 06, 2020 at 15:09 UTC
Thanks for the info! I didn't know about grep.metacapan.org!	[reply]