Most of the PowerBuilder painters have views. Each view provides a specific way of viewing or modifying the object you are creating or a specific kind of information related to that object. Having multiple views available in a painter window means you can work on more than one task at a time. In the Window painter, for example, you can select a control in the Layout view to modify its properties, and double-click the control to edit its scripts.
Views are displayed in panes in the painter window. Some views are stacked in a single pane. At the bottom of the pane there is a tab for each view in the stack. Clicking the tab for a view pops that view to the top of the stack.
Each painter has a default layout, but you can display the views you choose in as many panes as you want to and save the layouts you like to work with. For some painters, all available views are included in the default layout; for others, only a few views are included.
Each pane has:
A title bar you can display temporarily or permanently
A handle in the top-left corner you can use to drag the pane to a new location
Splitter bars between the pane and each adjacent pane
