Empty panel
A panel is a container. Once the panel in on the profile, can be opened clicking twice on it. Then you can add other controls inside of it, even others panels too!
is a good solution to mantain organized all the controls in your profiles, distribute diferent elements together, or create sections of the cockpit, that can be hidden/unhidden at the same time.
One important thing of the panels are the fact that when the panel is hidden, all his child controls are actualized in real time, so when you open or unhidde the panel, all the controls inside are updated.
The panel itself can be decorated with a flat or image background, and can use images for the borders too.
Use panels in your profiles!
In this image note how all the main sections of the profile are defined as panels. Selected you can see the CDU panel:
Clicking twice over the panel, it open and then you can see how all the diferent images and buttons are organized indside:
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