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suspend

suspend

Handler:

HyperCard sends the suspend message to the current card when a user (or handler) launches an application from HyperCard with the open command, just before the application is launched.

Note: HyperCard does not send this message when it’s running under MultiFinder.

Related Topics

• Message sending orders
• resume
• suspended
• 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.