Glass

A glass is the content inside a pane — a header (a title plus action buttons) above a content area. Every pane holds one glass, rendered as a <bw-glass> element inside its <bw-pane>.

Concept

A pane is just a region of the layout; the glass is what fills it. Splitting the window with config or addPane creates a pane, and Binary Window seeds it with a glass built from that node's title, content, and actions.

Because the glass owns the header, it's also the drag handle: dragging a glass by its header onto another pane rearranges the layout.

Actions

The header shows actions — buttons that operate on the glass. An attached glass defaults to DEFAULT_GLASS_ACTIONS: minimize, detach, and close. A maximize action is also built in and can be added.

• minimize — removes the pane and docks the glass on the sill at the bottom of the window; click its dock entry to restore it.
• detach — pops the glass out of its pane into a floating detached glass.
• maximize — expands the pane to fill the window; toggling restores it.
• close — removes the pane and its glass.

Pass your own actions array to change which buttons appear or to add custom ones. See Actions for the action object and placement details.