The Name view (CV_NAME attribute) displays icon/text or bit-map/text pairs to represent container items. CV_NAME is an attribute of the CNRINFO data structure's flWindowAttr field.

In the Name view, icon/text pairs and bit-map/text pairs are icons and bit maps, respectively, with one or more lines of text displayed to the right of each icon or bit map. Each line can contain one or more text characters, which are left-justified. The container control does not limit the number of lines or the number of characters in each line.

The container control offers the option of flowing or not flowing the container items in the Name view. To flow container items means to dynamically arrange them in columns.