The Component UI API provides functions for integrating with the WinGate Management Console as well as creating standard user interface elements . The Component UI API provides the following types of UI elements.
| Element type | Description |
|---|---|
| Navigation Items | Nodes that sit in the navigation tree on the left side of the WinGate Management Console. Typically you provide a panel that appears when you click on your node. |
| Tasks | Text buttons that sit under the navigation tree and that can be optionally grouped together. You can add, remove and edit tasks and task groups as you see fit allowing you to provide permanent tasks as well as tasks that are only active under certain conditions. Most components in the WMC add tasks when they are navigated to in the tree and remove their tasks when the user navigates away. |
| Navigation Bar | Provides alert messages with optional links for navigating around the user interface. |
| Context Help | Support for showing HTML help based on the current navigation position in the navigation tree. |