A dockable container is a particular type of paned container to which you can dock panes and undock them. Docking a pane means adding it to a dockable container at a given location interactively. Undocking a pane means removing it from its dockable container to put it inside a special top view interactively.

The classes in the Views Gadgets library that implement docking panes are IlvDockable and IlvDockableContainer.

In the following illustration, all the panes that make up the graphical interface are docked.

In the following illustration, the main menu bar has been undocked and floats inside a top window.

In the following illustration, the main menu bar is docked again to the right side of the GUI main window.