Creating new toolbars

PowerBuilder has built-in toolbars. When you start PowerBuilder, you see what is called the PowerBar. In each painter, you also see one or more PainterBars. But PowerBar and PainterBar are actually types of toolbars you can create to make it easier to work in PowerBuilder.

PowerBars and PainterBars

A PowerBar is a toolbar that always displays in PowerBuilder, unless you hide it. A PainterBar is a toolbar that always displays in the specific painter for which it was defined, unless you hide it:

For this toolbar type	The default is named	And you can have up to
PowerBar	PowerBar1	Four PowerBars
PainterBar	PainterBar1 PainterBar2 and so on	Eight PainterBars in each painter

Where you create them

You can create a new PowerBar anywhere in PowerBuilder, but to create a new PainterBar, you must be in the workspace of the painter for which you want to define the PainterBar.

To create a new toolbar:

Position the pointer on any toolbar, display the pop-up menu, and select New.

The New Toolbar dialog box displays.

About the StyleBar In painters that do not have a StyleBar, StyleBar is on the list in the New Toolbar dialog box. You can define a toolbar with the name StyleBar, but you can add only painter-specific buttons, not style buttons, to it.
Select a PowerBar name or a PainterBar name and click OK.

The Customize dialog box displays with the Current toolbar box empty.
One at a time, drag the toolbar buttons you want from the Selected palette box to the Current toolbar box and then click OK.