The Application painter has several views where you specify properties for your application and how it behaves at start-up. Because the Application painter is an environment for editing a nonvisual object of type application, the Application painter looks like the User Object painter for nonvisual user objects, and it has the same views. For details about the views, how you use them, and how they are related, see “Views in painters that edit objects”.
Most of your work in the Application painter is done in the Properties view and the Script view to set application-level properties and code application-level scripts. For information about specifying properties, see “Specifying application and Today item properties”. For information about coding in the Script view, see Chapter 6, “Writing Scripts.”
You can automatically create nonvisual objects in an application by inserting a nonvisual object in the Application object. You do this if you want the services of a nonvisual object to be available to your application. The nonvisual object you insert can be a custom class or standard class user object.
You insert a nonvisual object in an Application object in the same way you insert one in a user object. For more information, see “Using class user objects”.
The Properties view for an Application object includes a Today Item page for adding a custom item to the Today screen for a Pocket PC. The Today screen acts as the main screen or home page in the Pocket PC environment. Default Today items show the status of an application and launch it when you tap the item. For example, the default Calendar item on the Today screen shows whether you have any upcoming appointments. When you tap the item, the Calendar application starts (or displays if it is running in the background).
