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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference
Paned Box (Control)
Reference
Description
A paned box (or paned window) is a control that is divided by split bars
into areas called panes.
Figure 47. Paned Box.
When to Use
- Recommended
- Provide a paned box when it is useful for a user to see related
information or more than one view of data in separate panes.
Guidelines
- Required
- Support paned boxes that can be split either horizontally or vertically.
- Required
- Provide a split bar between panes of a paned box.
- Required
- If the paned box is used to separate multiple viewing areas in a window,
make the window resizable.
- Recommended
- Support only one direction for a specific paned box.
- Recommended
- If your application supports changing the size of a pane, provide a sash
on the split bar to do so.
- Recommended
- If your application supports multiple views of the information displayed
in a pane, allow the user to split the pane multiple times in one or the other
direction, but do not change the underlying data being viewed when the user
does so.
- Recommended
- Provide coordinated scrolling of related panes in a paned box in the
dimension orthogonal to the direction of splitting. For example, allow a user
to scroll vertically the first pane of a paned box that is split horizontally
and have all the other panes scroll with the first pane.
- Recommended
- Allow panes that contain independent views to be scrolled independently.
- Required
- Design each pane in a paned box to consist of one or more tab groups.
- Required
- Make each sash in a paned box a tab group.
- Required
- When the user uses tab-group navigation, traverse through the tab groups
in a paned box in the following order:
- All tab groups in the first pane
- The sash on the split bar of the first pane, if any
- All tab groups in the next pane
- The sash on the next split bar
Repeat this pattern to the end of the paned box.
Essential Related Topics
For more information, see Chapter 5 and the Sash (Control) and Window
Navigation reference pages.
Supplemental Related Topics
For more information, see the Control Navigation, Input Focus, Internal
Navigation, and Tab Group reference pages.
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