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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference

Paned Box (Control)

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Description

A paned box (or paned window) is a control that is divided by split bars into areas called panes.

Figure 47. Paned Box.




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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:

  1. All tab groups in the first pane

  2. The sash on the split bar of the first pane, if any

  3. All tab groups in the next pane

  4. The sash on the next split bar

    Repeat this pattern to the end of the paned box.

    5. 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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