The Splitter control is a layouting control that separates the screen
into two areas, so called panes. It offers a built-in drag and drop
functionality so that the user can easily resize the two areas by
dragging the separator. You can decide to have the two areas separated
horizontally or vertically by using the
splitterOrientation
attribute. There are properties available for separator positioning (
splitterPosition
) and for making settings on the minimum widths of the areas (
minSizeFirstPane
,
minSizeSecondPane
). To fill the two panes with controls, you can use the corresponding addFirstPaneContent
and addSecondPaneContent
methods.
To navigate between the Splitter panes and their contents, press the Tab
key. If a content pane is focused in a vertical Splitter,
pressing Shift+Arrow left
or Shift+Arrow right
resizes that pane. For horizontal Splitters the key combination is Shift+Up
and Shift+Down
. To maximize the selected pane, press the End
key, and to minimize it press the Home
key.
Furthermore clicking F6
steps only through the Splitter content panes without selecting the Splitter contents. Stepping backwards is performed by pressing Shift+F6
.