How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk

Janish has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, anybody can help on this?

As title says, how can I add horizontal spacing between a radio button and it's text? The text is way too close to the radio button make the gui looks weird. Below is my code (I tried columnspan and it seems doesn't works for me):

  $mw->Label(-text => 'Package Selection',
    -justify => 'left'
    )->grid(-sticky => 'w', -column => 0, -row => 1);

    my $package = 'normal';
    foreach my $type (qw(normal pckg_A pckg_B)){
    $mw->Radiobutton(
        -text => $type,
        -value => $type,
        -variable => \$package,
    #)->grid(-sticky => 'w', -column => 1, -row => 2);
    )->grid(-sticky => 'w', -column => 1, -row => 2, -columnspan=>20, 
+-padx => 50, );
}
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Thank you.

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Re: How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk by rovf (Priest) on Jul 11, 2014 at 05:49 UTC
The text is way too close to the radio button Maybe not the most elegant solution, but wouldn't it be easiest to simply pad the text with a couple of spaces? -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2014 at 00:13 UTC
Not really, because when the padding-with-spaces hits the browser, the browser will ignore multiple white-space characters after the first (or is it the last?) In any case, to pad with spaces anything that's going to a browser, you'll have to use ` `, or CSS styling. check Ln42!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk by rovf (Priest) on Jul 18, 2014 at 05:52 UTC
you'll have to use , or CSS styling But we are not talking HTML here. It's Tk! -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk by Janish (Sexton) on Jul 11, 2014 at 05:52 UTC
Thanks for your reply. What do you means by pad the test with spaces? Sample code would be very much helpful to me	[reply]
Re^3: How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk by stefbv (Curate) on Jul 11, 2014 at 06:29 UTC
Probably this is what rovf sugested, also note that I use Tk::RadiobuttonGroup. `use strict; use warnings; use Tk; use Tk::widgets qw(RadiobuttonGroup); my $mw = MainWindow->new; $mw->Label( -text => 'Package Selection', -justify => 'left' )->pack; my $package = 'normal'; my $radiobuttongroup = $mw->RadiobuttonGroup ( -list => [' normal', ' pckg_A', ' pckg_B'], -orientation => 'vertical', -variable => \$package, -command => sub { print $package, "\n"; } )->pack; MainLoop;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk by Janish (Sexton) on Jul 11, 2014 at 06:39 UTC
Re^5: How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk by stefbv (Curate) on Jul 11, 2014 at 06:43 UTC
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Re: How do I space out each radio button horizontally in Perl/Tk by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2014 at 07:05 UTC
almost all the widgets are paddable Use `use Tk::WidgetDump; $mw>WidgetDump; $mw->MainLoop();` and examine the labels in widgetdump, change the padding, see if you like the results	[reply] [d/l]


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