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marked

set [the] marked of card ¬ to trueOrFalse The marked property returns or sets whether a card is marked. It corre- sponds to the Card Marked check box in a Card Info dialog box.

You can operate on the set of marked cards with commands such as print, go, show, and sort.


Placeholders

card
An expression that identifies a card by name, number, or id using one of the following forms (in AppleScript, use “background” in place of “bkgnd”):

recent card
back
forth
card id posInteger [of bkgnd ]card text [of bkgnd ] -- namecard posInteger [of bkgnd ] -- numberordinal card [of bkgnd ]position card [of bkgnd ]

ordinal marked cardposition marked cardmarked card posInteger

For example:

card id 3894
card "Index"
card 1 of background 1
prev card
previous card of this background
next card
this card
first card
last card
middle card
any card
first marked card
last marked card
next marked card
previous marked card
marked card 1
marked card (the number of marked cards)
When used inside a card script in HyperTalk:
me
When a card receives a message:
[the] target
See also: button and field

trueOrFalse
Any expression that evaluates to the HyperTalk and AppleScript constants true or false.

For example:

true
false
the hilite of bg btn "Yes"
fld "Zip" contains "95014"
the short name of this stack is "Fred"


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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.

marked

set [the] marked of card ¬ to trueOrFalse The marked property returns or sets whether a card is marked. It corre- sponds to the Card Marked check box in a Card Info dialog box.

You can operate on the set of marked cards with commands such as print, go, show, and sort.


Placeholders

card
An expression that identifies a card by name, number, or id using one of the following forms (in AppleScript, use “background” in place of “bkgnd”):

recent card
back
forth
card id posInteger [of bkgnd ]card text [of bkgnd ] -- namecard posInteger [of bkgnd ] -- numberordinal card [of bkgnd ]position card [of bkgnd ]

ordinal marked cardposition marked cardmarked card posInteger

For example:

card id 3894
card "Index"
card 1 of background 1
prev card
previous card of this background
next card
this card
first card
last card
middle card
any card
first marked card
last marked card
next marked card
previous marked card
marked card 1
marked card (the number of marked cards)
When used inside a card script in HyperTalk:
me
When a card receives a message:
[the] target
See also: button and field

trueOrFalse
Any expression that evaluates to the HyperTalk and AppleScript constants true or false.

For example:

true
false
the hilite of bg btn "Yes"
fld "Zip" contains "95014"
the short name of this stack is "Fred"


Related Topics

« markChar | HyperTalk Reference | menuMessage »

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