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+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
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+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
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+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+	Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->  <!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd"><concept id="GUID-8B137691-7C9E-4085-BFFE-4CFE4A64A091" xml:lang="en"><title>Control
+pane</title><prolog><metadata><keywords></keywords></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>The Control pane occupies the bottom part of the screen and
+displays the labels associated with the softkeys.</p>
+<fig id="GUID-04E1523C-BC5C-4951-83FD-FD48B8370B6E">
+<title>Control pane</title>
+<image href="GUID-4DEC6706-6189-4E91-AEA9-479DDF04B955_d0e53591_href.png" scale="40" placement="inline"></image>
+</fig>
+<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>
+</conbody></concept>
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