Description
The Application painter's focus is now the Application object and its scripts. You no longer use the Application painter to create a new application, change applications, or modify the application's library search path. You use the Select Application and Library List dialog boxes that you access from new buttons in the PowerBar.
Because the Application painter is an environment for editing a nonvisual object of type application, it looks a lot like the User Object painter when you are editing a nonvisual object.
These views are available in the View menu:
Non-Visual Object List
Properties
Event List
Function List
Script
Structure List
Structure
Usage
These are some of the things you can do in the Application painter:
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To do this
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Do this
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Write application level scripts
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Use the Script view
See Writing scripts
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Specify application properties
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Use Properties view
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Make the services of a nonvisual object available to the application by inserting a user object in the Application object
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Select Insert>Object from the menu bar and then select a standard class user object or select User Object and specify the user object
You can see the inserted object in the Non-Visual Object List view
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Return the painter window's views to the default or save a view layout
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Select Design>Options and use the Layout tab page
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Here's what you no longer do in the Application painter:
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To do this
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Do this
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Create a new application
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Click the New button in the PowerBar and use the Start Wizards tab page or click the Select Application button in the PowerBar and use the New tab page. These tab pages are the same
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Change applications
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Click the Select Application button in the PowerBar and use the Browse or Recent tab pages
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Modify the application's library search path
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Click the Library List button in the PowerBar
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See also
Views for nonmodal development
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