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suspend

suspend

Handler:

on suspend 
   statements
end suspend
HyperCard sends the suspend message to the current card when a user (or handler) launches an application from HyperCard with the open command, just before the application is launched.

Note: HyperCard does not send this message when it’s running under MultiFinder.

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.

suspend

suspend

Handler:

on suspend 
   statements
end suspend
HyperCard sends the suspend message to the current card when a user (or handler) launches an application from HyperCard with the open command, just before the application is launched.

Note: HyperCard does not send this message when it’s running under MultiFinder.

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

« startUp | HyperTalk Reference | suspendStack »

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