Hi Puneeth, After looking at your image, I guess I'm still a little confused about your question. Since this is not functionality that IDL has, it is something that you would have to code yourself to accomplish. You will probably need separate text elements for each item and you will also have to place lines to separate the columns. To do this you will probably have to use polyline (http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/POLYLINE.html). Is that what you are looking for? -Zach (VIS)

Hi, I was hoping for something ready-made but Ployline should do the trick. Thanks. :)

Hi, FWIW, here's a quick example of something you could try: w = window(dimensions=[400,800]) ; Dummy data for blank image elements ; to hold text. dim = 512 ; pixel dimension of blank image data blank = replicate(200b, dim, dim) ; light gray ; Lay out image elements in a grid... ; Blank mage regions to hold text i1 = image(blank, layout=[2,4,1], current=w) i3 = image(blank, layout=[2,4,3], current=w) i5 = image(blank, layout=[2,4,5], current=w) i7 = image(blank, layout=[2,4,7], current=w) ; Images i2 = image(/test, layout=[2,4,2], current=w) i4 = image(/test, layout=[2,4,4], current=w) i6 = image(/test, layout=[2,4,6], current=w) i8 = image(/test, layout=[2,4,8], current=w) ; Target text to display in each of the gray image regions t1 = text(.1*dim, .8*dim, [systime(),'dog','cat'], target=i1, /data, $ VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT=1.0, FONT_SIZE=9, FONT_NAME='Helvetica') t2 = text(.1*dim, .8*dim, systime(), target=i3, /data, $ FONT_SIZE=9, FONT_NAME='Helvetica') t3 = text(.1*dim, .8*dim, systime(), target=i5, /data, $ FONT_SIZE=9, FONT_NAME='Helvetica') t4 = text(.1*dim, .8*dim, systime(), target=i7, /data, $ FONT_SIZE=9, FONT_NAME='Helvetica') Regards,