I've looked at the Canvas widget and it is definitely a good thing for me to have in my Tk arsenal, but it feels wrong for this application. But the approach got me thinking and wouldn't this work: I'll have a button that pops open a new TopLevel, and I'll just populate the TopLevel with *radiobuttons*. no need that I can see for an intermediary layer of widgets. Just a simple loop with packing a frame into the TL, then packing *it* with radio buttons in for as long as a max-length column should be, then another frame, more radiobuttons, until I run out. They'll all store their value into the same var and have the same callback to deal with the menu selection. [I'd post sample code, but: 1) not written yet, and 2) it seems simple enough that I can't imagine it won't do what I need (or be all that difficult)). It's feeling like about five lines of Perl to do..:o) Am I missing something or is it really the case that this simple approach will get me what I was looking for?

In reply to Re^3: Multi-column Tk:Optionmenu? by BernieC
in thread Multi-column Tk:Optionmenu? by BernieC

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