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HyperTalk Reference

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idle

Handler:

HyperCard repeatedly sends the idle message to the current card when no other events are occurring (that is, when all handlers have finished running and HyperCard itself isn’t sending other messages).

Related Topics

• Message sending orders
• 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.