Re: I don't want to be a PANE, but...

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

"Wright, Lynne" <lwright -at- positron911 -dot- com> wrote in message
news:236946 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
>
> I'm having trouble settling on a naming convention for the rectangular
area
> in a window or dialog box where variable information is displayed, or
where
> text can be entered. For example, this white area in Outlook where i'm
> entering my plea; or the vertical rectangular area in Explorer where the
> tree structure of file folders is displayed.
>
<snip>
>
> And yes... I asked a variety of developers here, and none of them could
give
> me a definitive answer.
>
Have you asked you users? Are there terms that they would find familiar?

BTW, I have seen "pane" used in many contexts as part of a window (or a
page), and I find it works nicely within the analogy.

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