A screen is a main unit of the generic UI. It consists of visual components, data containers and other non-visual components. A screen can be displayed inside the main application window either in the tab or as a modal dialog.

The main part of the screen is a Java or Groovy class called controller. Layout of the screen is usually defined in an XML file called descriptor.

In order to show a screen, the framework creates a new instance of the Window visual component, connects the window with the screen controller and loads the screen layout components as child components of the window. After that, the screen’s window is added to the main application window.