Compound controls

A simple control is one that contains no other control. The term compound control or container refers to a control that contains one or more controls. The container controls may themselves be compound controls. When a control is contained in a compound control it is called a component control. Compound controls can be used to group non-window-owning controls in window-owning controls or to allow several controls to be handled together.

For more information on compound controls, see Compound controls in traditional architecture and Compound controls in the view architecture .

Examples of a compound control include:

• a view that displays text in the main pane

  typically this is handled by using the methods of the CEikLabel class, which is a non-window-owning control, in a CCoeControl -derived view

• a view that contains a listbox in the main pane

  typically this is handled by using the methods of the Lists API in a CCoeControl -derived view

• a view the contains a grid in the main pane

  typically, this is handled by using the methods of the Grids API in a CCoeControl -derived view