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newBackground
newBackground
on newBackground
statements
end newBackground
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.
Placeholders
statementsAny 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
Related Topics
- closeBackground
- deleteBackground
- Message sending orders
- openBackground
- Where messages are sent initially
System messages
newBackground
