Whats the difference between the Canvas types?

Question

When i start the layout wizard and i choose to make a new carvas, there are several types of canvas available:
Content, Stacked, Vertical toolbar, Horizontal toolbar, Tab
What is the difference between these types? I have tried making different types, but they all seem the same to me.
Cheers.

Answer 1

The content canvas (the default) occupies the entire Forms window it is assigned to, and is the primary canvas where data is displayed in your form.
A stacked canvas can be used to pop-up information temporarily, in front of the content canvas. You usually display a stacked canvas based on a button press or some other activity by the user. At some point it is dismissed, so the user can again see all of the content canvas. Stacked canvases can also be used for special situations, such as hiding and displaying a scrollbar.
A tabbed canvas is much like a content canvas, but it has multiple pages, and each page is accessed by clicking on the tab associated with that page. It is like a stacked canvas, in that it sits on top of a content canvas, but it usually remains visible all of the time.
The toolbar canvases are simply that -- canvases that hold the toolbar with action icons for the form.