1. pack/grid hybrid: Use pack to position Pane and Label, and give pack the options to dynamically resize Pane. Use grid to position buttons within Pane.
   Oops, kvale beat me to this one.
2. pack only: Put each set of 4 radiobuttons in a Frame, and pack the frames into Pane.

• For your button variables, in each row, use the same variable for each of the 4 buttons, otherwise pressing one won't clear the other three!
• For your button variables, use an array instead of soft-referenced global variables.
• Use warnings (or -w) and strict.
• Add use Tk::Pane to prevent the "Assuming 'require Tk::Pane;'" warning.
• If you are using grid, then make your first row Labels, to avoid having to label each button.
• Use Data::Dumper during testing to see the values of your input controls.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::Pane;

# Set to 0 or 1 before running.
my $grid_method = 1;

my $mw = MainWindow->new( -title => "SACL Survey" );
my $pane = $mw->Scrolled(qw/Pane -scrollbars osow/)->pack(
  -expand => 'yes',
  -fill   => 'both',
);

$mw->Label( -text => "... <insert directions here> ..." )->pack();

my @button_values;

if ($grid_method) {
  foreach my $j (1..4) {
    $pane->Label(
      -text   => $j,
    )->grid(
      -column => $j,
      -row    => 1,
    );
  }
  foreach my $i (1..30) {
    foreach my $j (1..4) {
      $pane->Radiobutton(
        -value    => $j,
        -variable => \$button_values[$i-1],
      )->grid(
        -column => $j,
        -row    => $i+1,
      );
    }
  }
} else {
  foreach my $i (1..30) {
    my $frame = $pane->Frame->pack();
    foreach my $j (1..4) {
      $frame->Radiobutton(
        -text     => $j,
        -value    => $j,
        -variable => \$button_values[$i-1],
      )->pack(
        -side   => 'left',
      );
    }
  }
}

MainLoop;

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper \@button_values;
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