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Where messages are sent initially
HyperCard automatically sends system messages and a few commands to one of three objects: a specific button, a specific field, or the current card. If none of these objects handles the message, it continues along the message-passing order until it reaches HyperCard itself.
The commands HyperCard sends automatically deal with keyboard events and menu events.
Click an object to see the messages it can receive from HyperCard.
Buttons
The following system messages are initially sent to a specific button:
Fields
The following commands (in bold) and system messages are initially sent to a specific field:
The current card
The following commands (in bold) and system messages are initially sent to the current card:
Related Topics
- appleEvent
- arrowKey
- choose
- close
- closeBackground
- closeCard
- closeField
- closeStack
- commandKeyDown
- controlKey
- deleteBackground
- deleteButton
- deleteCard
- deleteField
- deleteStack
- doMenu
- enterInField
- enterKey
- exitField
- functionKey
- help
- hide
- idle
- keyDown
- Message sending orders
- mouseDown
- mouseEnter
- mouseLeave
- mouseStillDown
- mouseUp
- mouseWithin
- moveWindow
- newBackground
- newButton
- newCard
- newField
- newStack
- openBackground
- openCard
- openField
- openStack
- quit
- resume
- resumeStack
- returnInField
- returnKey
- show
- sizeWindow
- startUp
- suspend
- suspendStack
- tabKey
- The message-passing order
