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newField

newField
Handler:

on newField
   statements
end newField
HyperCard sends the newField message to a field just after HyperCard creates it.

Although the new field will not have a script with which to respond to the message, any other object along the message-passing path can handle it.


Placeholders

statements
Any return-separated list of built-in commands, user-defined handlers, or keywords that are part of a message or function handler.

put "Hello world"   -- built-in command
get total(field 1)  -- function call
global HelpInfo     -- keyword


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Note: This is a work in progress and will be formatting errors. Read more about the project on the home page.

newField

newField
Handler:

on newField
   statements
end newField
HyperCard sends the newField message to a field just after HyperCard creates it.

Although the new field will not have a script with which to respond to the message, any other object along the message-passing path can handle it.


Placeholders

statements
Any return-separated list of built-in commands, user-defined handlers, or keywords that are part of a message or function handler.

put "Hello world"   -- built-in command
get total(field 1)  -- function call
global HelpInfo     -- keyword


Related Topics

« newCard | HyperTalk Reference | newStack »

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