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 :)

In reply to Any way to add an item across merged columns in an hlist? by boleary

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