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About the Library painter
36 DataWindow .NET
What you cannot do in
the Library painter
You cannot create a library or rename a library in the Library painter. For
information about creating a library, see “Working with projects” on page 6.
You cannot create new DataWindow objects or queries in the Library painter.
You cannot open objects that are not in the current project.
About the Library painter
❖ To open the Library painter:
• Click the Library button in the PowerBar.
Views in the Library
painter
The Library painter has two views that you use for displaying library files
(PBLs) and the objects they contain. The two views, which are available from
the View menu, are Tree and List.
By default, the Library painter displays one Tree view (on the left) and one List
view (on the right). When the Library painter opens, both the Tree view and the
List view display the drives that are on your computer or mapped to it.
About the Tree view
and the List view
Tree view The Tree view displays the drives and folders on the computer and
the libraries and objects they contain.
List view The List view also displays the drives and folders on the computer
and the libraries and objects they contain, but the view has columns with
headers. For libraries, the comment column displays any comment associated
with the library. For objects, the columns display the object name, modification
date, size, and any comment associated with the object. You can resize columns
by moving the splitter bar between columns. You can sort a column’s contents
by Clicking the column header.
Displaying items in the
Tree view and the List
view
Most of the time, you select a library in the Tree view and display the objects
in that library in the List view. You can set a new root or move back and
forward in the history of your actions in the List view and the Tree view so
libraries or other items display. For information about setting the root, see
“Setting the root” on page 42. For information about moving back or forward,
see “Moving back, forward, and up one level” on page 42.