Windows and frames

• Tab at the top and the bottom which the user can drag to move the window.
• Close box (optional)
• Title (not optional, but can be empty).
• Zoom box (optional) for zooming the window to the entire screen size and back again.
• Minimizer (optional) for shrinking the window down to the tab at the top and for expanding the window back out again.
• Resize corners (optional) for resizing the window from any corner.
• Document icon, provided on document windows to support drag drop operations on the document.
• A content view which can be any TView derived class and can contain any child views.

Only one window group can be active at a time. The menus and palettes of an inactive window group are automatically hidden. Clicking on any window in an inactive window group activates that group, bringing all the windows in that group to the front and making the menus and palettes in that group visible.

Also visible in the above example is an active embedded frame inside the main window content area. You use frames to present embedded document components. Like windows, frames become active and the menus change to display the appropriate commands for a component when you select the component's frame. You can move and resize frames like windows, but the bounds of the containing view are the limit of a frame's position and size.