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newBackground

Handler:

HyperCard sends the newBackground message to the current card (in this case, the first card of the new background) just after HyperCard creates the background.

Although the new background will not have a script with which to respond to the message, any other object along the message-passing path can handle it.

Related Topics

• closeBackground
• deleteBackground
• Message sending orders
• 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.