Paned Box (Control)

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Paned Box (Control) — Reference

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

Figure 47 Paned Box

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.

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.

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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:

Repeat this pattern to the end of the paned box.

For more information, see Chapter 5 and the Sash (Control) and Window Navigation reference pages.

For more information, see the Control Navigation, Input Focus, Internal Navigation, and Tab Group reference pages.