newButton

newButton

Handler:

on newButton

  statements

end newButton

HyperCard sends the newButton message to a button just after HyperCard creates it.

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

Examples

--This handler sets the autoHilite for each new button:

on newButton

  -- the target is the name of the new button

  set autoHilite of the target to true

  pass newButton

end newButton

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 command

get total(field 1)  -- function call

global HelpInfo     -- keyword

Version 0.8b4 (July 4, 2025)