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lockScreen
set [the] lockScreen to trueOrFalse
The lockScreen property returns or sets whether HyperCard updates the screen when you go to another card. You can use lockScreen to prevent the user from seeing cards as a handler goes to them. The default setting is false. HyperCard sets
lockScreen to false on idle. Setting
lockScreen to true speeds up scripts that go to cards momentarily before returning to the source card. (HyperCard runs faster when it doesn't have to redraw the screen.) Examples
set the lockScreen to true
Placeholders
trueOrFalseAny expression that evaluates to the HyperTalk and AppleScript constants
true or false. For example:
true
false
the hilite of bg btn "Yes"
fld "Zip" contains "95014"
the short name of this stack is "Fred"
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