Using views in painters – PB Docs 2017

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: