One of the tools on the PowerBar and Tools menu is a text editor that is always available. Using the editor, you can view and modify text files (such as initialization files and tab-separated files with data) without leaving PowerBuilder. Among the features the file editor provides are find and replace, undo, importing and exporting text files, and dragging and dropping text.
The file editor has font properties and an indentation property that you can change to make files easier to read. If you do not change any properties, files have black text on a white background and a tab stop setting of 3 for indentation. Select Design>Options from the menu bar to change the tab stop and font settings.
Editor properties apply elsewhere
When you set properties for the file editor, the settings
also apply to the Function painter, the Script view, the Source
editor, the Interactive SQL view in
the Database painter, and the Debug window.
To move text, simply select it, drag it to its new location, and drop it. To copy text, press the Ctrl key while you drag and drop the text.
