The Panoramic IDE is a lovely and simple device and shouldn't be confused with a systems language device such as Delphi,SDK, or Visual GO ASAM where those IDE's are often the primary area of applications.
The Panoramic IDE is like a "sketch pad for your GUI ideas"
Save your lay out to the editor and then develope from the editor.
You will find the Power of Panoramic IS the Editor. If you are Never making any mistakes....then you aren't doing anything!
The sometimes frustrating rigidity of Basic can be a positive because in the editor you can easily see and manage system objects,variables and labels !