Painters and editors
Some of the editors you use to edit objects are called painters.
For example, you build a window in the Window painter. There you
define the properties of the window, add controls such as buttons
and labels, and code the window and its controls to work as your
application requires.
PowerBuilder provides painters for windows, menus, DataWindow
objects, visual and nonvisual user-defined objects, functions, structures,
databases, data pipelines, and the application itself. For each
of these object types, there is also a Source editor in which you
can modify code directly. See “Working in painters” and “Using the Source editor”.
There is also a file editor you can use to edit any file without
leaving the development environment. See “Using the file editor”.