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Glossary

Area

Area is a workspace for a particular type of editor, like a 3D View Editor, or an Outliner.

Header is a small horizontal strip, which sits either at the top or bottom of the area and acts as a container for menus and commonly used tools.

A group of context sensitive hotkeys.

A sequence of user confirmed and succeed operators.

An interactive tool that blocks the UI and takes user input to confirm, cancel or adjust an action.

A tool in Blender that performs an action and can be assigned to a hotkey, a button or can be called by a python script.

Panel is a collapsible group of UI widgets.

Object's data that can be represented as a UI widget.