Battery pane Battery indicator is only visible in the idle state. It
displays the remaining energy level of the battery,
using a graphical indicator. It also acts as a
charging indicator.
Figure 3-11. Battery pane (right).
Universal indicator pane Used for displaying universal status indicators: the
status indicators that need to be visible regardless
of the current application. The maximum number of
items at a time is 3; items are prioritized according
to their importance.
Figure 3-12. Universal indicator pane replaces the battery pane (right).
Control pane
Control pane occupies the bottom part of the screen and displays the labels
associated with the two softkeys.
Figure 3-13. Control pane.
When there is a list that can be scrolled, the scrolling indicator arrows appear
between the softkey labels. See section Lists and Grids for a detailed description of
the indicators.
Control pane is also active during options menus, queries and other states using pop-
up windows, although it does not reside itself in the pop-up window.
The actual softkeys should be positioned directly beneath the screen so that the
association between the keys and their respective labels is evident.
Pop-up windows
Certain UI components are displayed within pop-up windows. A common
characteristic for all these components is that they are temporary states, which
means that they do not remain open if the application for some reason is left in
background processing when some other application takes control. Also,
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