The windowing system in the CommonPoint application system centers around the concept of a window group . A window group is a collection of windows associated with the same document or container. For example, when the user is writing a memo, there might be several windows open at the same time:
These windows form a window group associated with the memo. Each group can have only one primary window. In the CommonPoint application system, you can have several window groups open at one time. However, only one group at a time is active: the group that the user is currently working with.
A window itself can have one of three states:
- The active window in the active window group is the window the user is currently working in. The title tab of this window has a raised, three-dimensional look, and all its controls are accessible. This window and any associated windows constitute the active window group. The active content window can be a document window, a panel, or a dialog box. (Palettes and menus cannot be active content windows.)
- Inactive windows in the active window group are associated with the primary window but are inactive. Their controls are invisible.
- Inactive windows outside of the active window group are all other windows not associated with the primary windows. Their controls are also invisible.
NOTE 
A slight change in window shading distinguishes inactive windows in the active group from inactive windows outside the active group.
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