I found a pretty odd behavior: This program will put a spot on coordinates where the screen is touched. The thing is that the spot will appear on coordinates that where taken BEFORE the program is executed. For example: If you touch the spacebar and run the program, the spot will appear on the spacebar area.

yeah i made something similar to this a few days ago...

That's normal, the previous position you touched is always kept track of. What did you expect it to be?

I always though that the functionality was started when the program is executed, not that is always present. But now i think about it, it makes sense, otherwise we wouldn't able to use the touchscreen.

Because DIRECT mode is essentially just interactive-mode SmileBASIC, they have to run all the updates and processes or DIRECT inputs might not work. The BASIC env is frozen when you're in the menus though. Launching a program from the viewers might totally reset the environment, but I have no idea.