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<concept id="GUID-08B878D0-C0DA-46CC-ACC2-E576E5A3D937" xml:lang="en"><title>Main
pane</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<p>The main pane is the principal area of the screen where an application
can display its data.</p>
<p>There are a number of standard components for applications to use in the
main pane.</p>
<table id="GUID-72C9D280-C5DB-4BD8-ACA5-B4D0BCAE8EDA"><title>Standard components
for applications to use in main pane</title>
<tgroup cols="2"><colspec colname="col1" colwidth="0.34*"/><colspec colname="col2" colwidth="1.66*"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Pane</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><p>List</p></entry>
<entry><p>There are several standard list types to choose from (see <xref href="GUID-E6803961-14A0-44BD-A94E-5D8A38EA907F.dita">Lists and grids</xref> for
a detailed description of the list types).</p><p>In the landscape mode, two
row lists are most commonly stretched to be displayed in one row, which enables
displaying more items in landscape. List stretching is ON by default,
but application can decide to disable it.</p></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><p>Grid</p></entry>
<entry><p>Items can be presented on a two-directional grid.</p></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><p>Find pane</p></entry>
<entry><p>The Find pane is used together with a list, and it allows the user
to search list items alphabetically (see <xref href="GUID-F1CC06C0-0D3A-4BBC-97E1-E52D2856D7A7.dita">Find
pane</xref> for more information about the Find pane).</p></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><p>Status indicators</p></entry>
<entry><p>Status indicators are displayed in the Universal indicator pane.
See <xref href="GUID-0348B62D-1AE0-45F5-B06E-9EE2D83326E8.dita">Universal indicators</xref> for
more details on Status indicators.</p></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><p>Soft indicators</p></entry>
<entry><p>Soft indicators only exist in the Idle state. See <xref href="GUID-BA8806CC-BE7C-4927-ACF6-DA0CB6E96AAA.dita">Indicators</xref> for
more information on status indicators and soft indicators.</p></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<p>Applications can also use the main pane area to freely draw whatever is
needed. In that case, however, the responsibility for the look and feel is
entirely on the application's designer. </p>
<section id="GUID-A0156C63-94CE-4194-9751-235807B93415"><p>For
information on how to implement your application using the Symbian application
and UI frameworks, see <xref href="GUID-29486886-CB54-4A83-AD6D-70F971A86DFC.dita">Application
and UI frameworks</xref>.</p></section>
</conbody></concept>