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?
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In reply to Re^3: perl/Tk and expandable widgets by zentara
in thread perl/Tk and expandable widgets by Elijah

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