Tablelist supports interactive cell editing with the aid of the Tk core entry, text, spinbox, checkbutton, and menubutton widgets. These widgets are automatically registered for cell editing, hence the only action needed for using one of them for editing the cells of a given column is as follows:
Use the tablelist widget's columnconfigure
  subcommand to set the given column's -editable option to true
  and its -editwindow option to
  entry, text,
  spinbox, checkbutton, or
  menubutton, respectively.  (These options are
  supported at cell level, too, with the aid of the cellconfigure
  subcommand.)  Since the default value of the
  -editwindow column configuration option is
  entry, it is not necessary to set it explicitly if the
  editing should take place with the aid of an embedded entry widget.
tablelist::tablelist command for details on the editing
    process.-padx and
    -pady options set to 2, its
    -wrap option set to none, and its
    initial height set to the number of lines contained in it.  There is,
    however, an exception from this rule:  If the -wrap option of the cell's
    column was set to true and Tk version 8.5 or higher is being used, then the
    text widget's -wrap option will be set to
    word and its initial height will equal the number of
    display lines (taking into account the line wraps) contained in
    it.  You can use the script corresponding to the -editstartcommand
    tablelist configuration option to override the initial settings (except
    the height) according to your needs.-wrap option was
    set to word or char (either by
    Tablelist or from within the above-mentioned script) and Tk version 8.5 or
    higher is being used, then, whenever its width changes (e.g., due to
    interactive column resizing), its height will be set automatically to the
    number of display lines contained in it.  (The number of display lines
    is retrieved with the aid of the  count
    -displaylines  text widget subcommand, introduced in Tk
    8.5.)package require Wcb 
    or  package require wcb)  then the text
    widget's height will be updated automatically whenever text is inserted
    into or deleted from it, which makes the editing much more
    user-friendly.  This is achieved by using an appropriately defined
    after-insert and after-delete
    callback for the edit window.  You can use the script corresponding to
    the -editstartcommand
    tablelist configuration option to define further callbacks for the text
    widget.  (The above-mentioned callback is created via
    wcb::cbappend, after returning from that
    script.)Tab key is reserved for navigation between
    the editable cells, but the user can insert a tabulator character into the
    text widget by pressing Control-i.Return and KP_Enter keys insert
    a newline character into the text widget.  Control-j can
    also be used for inserting a newline.  Control-Return and
    Control-KP_Enter terminate the editing and destroy the edit
    window.Control-Home and Control-End have
    their well-known text widget-specific bindings, just like
    Meta-< and Meta-> if
    tk_strictMotif is false.  Again, this is different
    from the behavior of the other widgets used for interactive cell
    editing.  For jumping into the first/last editable cell, the user can
    press Alt-Home/Alt-End or
    Meta-Home/Meta-End
    (Command-Home/Command-End on Mac OS Classic and
    Mac OS X Aqua).-state option set to
    normal, which makes the widget editable.  You can
    use the script corresponding to the -editstartcommand
    tablelist configuration option to set the state of the spinbox to
    readonly or define validations for it, as well as for
    setting its (range of) values and its -wrap
    option.-borderwidth,
    -font, -padx,
    -pady, and -variable options. 
    In an X11 environment it will be created with explicitly set values for its
    -borderwidth, -indicatoron,
    -image, -selectimage,
    -selectcolor, and -variable
    options.  You can use the script corresponding to the
    -editstartcommand
    tablelist configuration option to set any other options, like
    -offvalue and -onvalue, according
    to the internal values of the cells.  Since the default values
    of the -offvalue and -onvalue
    checkbutton options are 0 and 1, you don't need
    to change these options if the cells have the same internal values
    0 and 1.-anchor, -indicatoron,
    -justify, -padx,
    -pady, -relief, and
    -textvariable options.  In addition, a menu with
    its -tearoff option set to 0 and an
    appropriate script as the value of its -postcommand
    option is created and set as the value of the menubutton's
    -menu option.  In an X11 environment, the menu's
    appearance is adapted to that of the tablelist widget by setting its
    -background, -foreground,
    -activebackground,
    -activeforeground, and
    -activeborderwidth options to appropriate values. 
    You can use the script corresponding to the -editstartcommand
    tablelist configuration option to set any other options of the menubutton
    and/or its associated menu.  You will, however, need this script in
    the first place for populating the menu, preferably with radiobutton
    entries.  For every radiobutton entry added to the menu, the Tablelist
    implementation will make sure that its value (which can be specified by
    setting the entry's -value or
    -label option) will be displayed in the menubutton as
    its text when the entry is selected.  (Tablelist achieves this by
    setting the menu entry's -variable option to the value
    of the menubutton's -textvariable option.)  For
    menu entries of types other than radiobutton (e.g., for command entries) it
    is the responsibility of the application to make sure that the selected
    entry's text will be shown in the menubutton (for example, with the aid of
    the menu entry's -command option).