Nokia Series 60 manual Windows and panes, Application window

3.GRAPHICAL COMPONENTS

Windows and panes

The display layouts are hierarchically organised. The layouts are built using components called windows and panes.

screen	Screen is the topmost display component,
	corresponding to the entire pixel area of the
	physical screen.
window	Window is a component that has no parent except
	the screen. Typically a window fills up the entire
	screen, but there are also smaller (temporary)
	windows that take up only a part of the screen,
	leaving other parts of the screen visible around
	themselves.
	Each application runs in a window of it's own.
	Applications can also use other temporary windows.
pane	Pane means a sub-component of a window (sub-
	window).
	A window may contain many panes, and each pane
	may contain further sub-panes and so on. A bottom
	level component that cannot have a sub-
	component, can be called an element.
	Status pane

Main pane

		Control pane
	Figure 3-1. Panes
application window	An application window is a principal window filling
	up the entire screen. It is usually not used directly
	for display, but just as a parent for the various
	panes.
	A typical application window is divided into the
	following panes:
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