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exitField
exitField
Handler:
on exitField statementsend exitField
HyperCard sends the exitField message to an unlocked field when, after clicking in a field or tabbing to it, a user (or handler) removes the insertion point from the field without changing any of its text.
Related Topics
- closeField
- Commands sent automatically
- enterInField
- deleteField
- newField
- openField
- returnInField
- 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.
put "Hello world" -- built-in commandget total(field 1) -- function callglobal HelpInfo -- keyword
exitField
