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closeBackground

closeBackground

Handler:

HyperCard sends the closeBackground message to the current card when a user (or handler) quits HyperCard, goes to a card whose background is different from the background of the current card, and when a background or stack is deleted.

Related Topics

• deleteBackground
• Message sending orders
• newBackground
• openBackground
• Where messages are sent initially

Placeholders

statements

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