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<p>The Control pane occupies the bottom part of the screen and

displays the labels associated with the softkeys.</p>

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<p>The Control pane is also active during <xref href="GUID-BFEEECCA-190B-4DDE-8A04-4FE918BE8690.dita">Options

menus</xref>, <xref href="GUID-7B275129-5EF7-4B27-B603-3BDE2C650A93.dita">queries</xref>,

and other states using <xref href="GUID-2922758C-37A4-436E-B0F3-358944F84E2A.dita">pop-up

windows</xref>, although it does not itself reside in a pop-up window.</p>

<p>The actual physical softkeys should be positioned directly beneath the

screen so that the association between the keys and their respective labels

is evident. Note, however, that the middle label refers to the Selection key

(see <xref href="GUID-2F264A2A-FA7A-4718-A6B6-9A764C1D1E0E.dita">Labeling the Selection

key</xref> for further details).</p>

<section><title>Using the control pane

in C++ applications</title><p>The APIs to use for the control pane are the Buttons

API for the softkeys and the Options

menu API for the menus.</p><p>For implementation information on using

the softkeys, see Using

the Buttons API. For implementation information on the menus, see Using

the Options menu API.</p><p>The Symbian platform uses Control Button

Area (CBA) resources to set the options in the control pane above the softkeys.

CBA resources map the text that appears above the softkeys in the control

pane with commands that are collected by the event loop of the application

framework and delivered to your application for <xref href="GUID-4941C035-C359-4968-9BD5-31F44EE5F810.dita">command

handling</xref>.</p><p>When a mobile device user selects an Options softkey,

the application framework displays the Options menu based upon the definitions

in the menu bar's resources.</p><p>The Symbian platform uses MENU_BAR resources

to create the Options menu, when a mobile device user selects the Options

softkey. The options that appear above the softkeys are determined by CBA

resources. The MENU_BAR resources map the text that appears in the Options

menu with commands that are collected by the event loop of the application

framework and delivered to your application for command handling. </p></section>

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