I am using Tk::TableMatrix and Perl to create a GUI displaying a big table. I have information for usually only one row per column, sometimes two rows. Here is a sample code which shows what I am currently doing.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;
use Tk::TableMatrix;

use strict; 
use warnings;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;
my $table = $mw->Scrolled("TableMatrix",
                                                  -resizeborders=>'non
+e',
                                                  -titlecols => 1,
                                                  -rows => 6,
                                                  -colstretchmode=>'al
+l',
                                                  -cols => 1,
                                                  -cache => 1,
                                                  -scrollbars => "osoe
+");

for(my $col = 1; $col < 500; $col++) {
        $table->insertCols("$col.0", 1);
        my $button = $table->Button(-text => "$col enabled", -command 
+=> sub {$table->see("0,300");
                                                                      
+      } );

        #initialy fill table with blank windows.  Section to improve
        my $blank = $table->Label(-text => "", -background => 'white',
+ -cursor => ['left_ptr']);
        $table->windowConfigure("0,$col", -window => $blank, -sticky =
+> 'nsew');
        $blank = $table->Label(-text => "", -background => 'white', -c
+ursor => ['left_ptr']);
        $table->windowConfigure("1,$col", -window => $blank, -sticky =
+> 'nsew');
        $blank = $table->Label(-text => "", -background => 'white', -c
+ursor => ['left_ptr']);
        $table->windowConfigure("2,$col", -window => $blank, -sticky =
+> 'nsew');
        $blank = $table->Label(-text => "", -background => 'white', -c
+ursor => ['left_ptr']);
        $table->windowConfigure("3,$col", -window => $blank, -sticky =
+> 'nsew');
        $blank = $table->Label(-text => "", -background => 'white', -c
+ursor => ['left_ptr']);
        $table->windowConfigure("4,$col", -window => $blank, -sticky =
+> 'nsew');
        $blank = $table->Label(-text => "", -background => 'white', -c
+ursor => ['left_ptr']);
        $table->windowConfigure("5,$col", -window => $blank, -sticky =
+> 'nsew');
        
        #fill each column with a button with random row placement
        my $row = int(rand(5));
        $table->windowConfigure("$row,$col", -window => $button, -stic
+ky => 'nsew');
}

#set row titles
$table->set("0,0", "Col 1");
$table->set("1,0", "Col 2");
$table->set("2,0", "Col 3");
$table->set("3,0", "Col 4");
$table->set("4,0", "Col 5");
$table->set("5,0", "Col 6");

$table->pack(-expand => 1,
                         -fill => 'both');

MainLoop;
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Is there a more efficient way of setting every cell to just a blank window and not an editable field. I looked in the perldoc pages and tried using -state => disabled but that didn't seem to let me use -insertRows and -insertCols.

I have found the TableMatrix module to be the best module for what I want compared to Tk::Table, Tk::Grid, and Tk::Hlist so I would not like to switch modules.

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