It seems that Tk::Columns is what I would need to accomplish this.

Note that Tk::Columns, although a decent widget, suffers from the same memory leak problems as Tk::MListbox, because the problem does't truly originate from either one, but from Tk::Listbox that leaks.

Both of these widgets tend to do sorts faster than what HList will support, because implementing it in HList involves a call for every cell in the Tabular display, where both Columns and MListbox require two for each column: one to delete all entries, and the second to reinsert the sorted elements. For large numbers of rows, this difference can be significant.

Of course... that extra boost of speed is small comfort when you are blissfully sorting large amounts of data and leaking memory like crazy...

Rob

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

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