I use Perl 5.10 ActivePerl 5.14 on win7, with Tkx bindings to create a GUI.

I use listbox objects in many places to good effect, but I'd like now to find a quick and easy way to extend the out-of-the-box listbox functionality. Unfortunately I don't have the time or expertise to make large changes to the pre-prepared Perl modules, so ideally am looking for something that exists already that I could adapt to my own use.

What I am looking for is a way of populating (horizontal) listbox items with something like fixed-width tkx labels that are individually addressable & updated, and can be individually colourised etc. Ideally what I am looking for is something like a scrollable table of independently updating cells. To keep things simple each cell can be of fixed dimensions. If a listbox is not the best widget to use, that's fine, but as a minimum I'm looking for some way to select rows and query this selection. It would be nice to achieve menu bindings with mouse button events too.

Thanks for any help!!! :)

In reply to Listbox with independently updating labels on items by v4169sgr

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