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mouseDown
mouseDown
Handler:
on mouseDown statementsend mouseDown
HyperCard sends the mouseDown message to a button or to a locked field when the user presses the mouse button down and the pointer is inside the rectangle of the button or field.
HyperCard sends mouseDown to the current card when the user presses the mouse button down and the pointer is not in the rectangle of a button or field.
Related Topics
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
mouseDown
