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Note: This is a work in progress and many formatting issues have been fixed. Read more about the project on the home page.
showshow menuBar show titleBar show groups show all cards show marked cards show posInteger cards show card picture show background picture show picture of card show picture of bkgnd show field [at point] show button [at point] show window [at point] show externalWindow [at point]
The show command displays HyperCard objects and elements. Show menuBar displays the menu bar at the top of the screen (unless the screen is locked). Show titleBar displays the title bar on the card window if it’s been hidden. (Normally, the title bar is visible.)
Show groups displays a two-pixel gray underline for all text that has the group text style. (By default, the group text style is invisible.) The underline appears for grouped text in every field (in all stacks). Use the hide groups command to remove the underline.
The show card forms display the specified cards in the current stack in turn, beginning with the next card or the next marked card. The other forms of the show command display the card or background picture, a window, or an object at a specified location on the screen. If the point is not given, the window or object is displayed at its previous location. Showing a window makes it the frontmost window. With external windows, an external command or external function must first create a window before show will work on it. Show does not create windows. Examples-- show a series of cards show all cards show ten cards put 26 into howMany show howMany cards show card window -- built-in windows: show tool window show window "tools" show Message box at 100,100 show window "Message" show message watcher show window "Message Watcher" show variable watcher show window "Variable Watcher" at 70,280 -- external windows: show window (line 9 of the windows) show window "Navigator" -- only if it already exists show window "Script of My HD:Home" at 100,100 -- only if it is open -- show objects: show card field 1 show field "Names" at 1,1 show bkgnd btn id 35 at 10,10 -- show the picture of a specified card or bkgnd: show picture of card 3 show pict of first cd show picture of background "jazz"
Demo Scripton showPictureDemo -- draw a picture and show it only when done: show bkgnd field "demo field" hide card picture drawPicture -- see below show card picture displayMessage "Click the mouse" & return & "to continue..." set the cursor to arrow wait until the mouseClick lock screen doMenu "revert" -- Don't keep the new picture choose browse tool unlock screen with dissolve slowly hide bkgnd field "demo field" end showPictureDemo on drawPicture setUpPaint put "50,16,12,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3" into theSides repeat with itemNum = 1 to the number of items in theSides set polysides to (item itemNum of theSides) drag from "240,160" to "240,250" end repeat end drawPicture on setUpPaint set lineSize to 1 choose regular polygon tool set the pattern to 1 set centered to true set filled to true set grid to false end setUpPaint
Related Topics Placeholders
posIntegerAn expression that evaluates to a positive integer. For example: 3 67 mod 13 the number of bg fields the number of backgrounds the number of cards div 2
See also: background , bkgnd , button , card , chunk , field , menu , and menuItem cardAn expression that identifies a card by name, number, or id using one of the following forms (in AppleScript, use “background” in place of “bkgnd”): recent card back forth card id posInteger [of bkgnd card text [of bkgnd] -- name card posInteger [of bkgnd] -- number ordinal card [of bkgnd] position card [of bkgnd] ordinal marked card position marked card marked card posInteger
For example: card id 3894 card "Index" card 1 of background 1 prev card previous card of this background next card this card first card last card middle card any card first marked card last marked card next marked card previous marked card marked card 1 marked card (the number of marked cards)
When used inside a card script in HyperTalk: me When a card receives a message: [the] target See also: button and field bkgndA HyperTalk expression that identifies a background by name, number, or id, using one of the following forms: bkgnd id posInteger bkgnd text -- name bkgnd posInteger -- number ordinal bkgnd position bkgnd
For example: bkgnd id 3894 bkgnd "Index" bkgnd 1 prev bkgnd previous bkgnd next bkgnd this bkgnd first bkgnd last bkgnd middle bkgnd any bkgnd
From within a background script, the term me refers to that background. When a background receives a the message [the] target , that message is referring to the background. See also: card fieldAn expression that identifies a field by name, number, or id using one of the following forms (in AppleScript, use “background” in place of “bkgnd”): card field id posInteger [[of] card] card field text [of card] -- name card field posInteger [of card] ordinal card field [of card] [bkgnd] field id posInteger [of card] [bkgnd] field text [of card] -- name [bkgnd] field posInteger [of card] ordinal [bkgnd] field [of card] For example:
card field id 3894 card field "My Notes" card field 1 first card field background field 3 of card 1 When used inside a field script in HyperTalk: `me` When a field receives a message: `[the] target` A field can also be referred to as a part when you’re talking about its position among all buttons and fields within the same card or background. pointHyperTalk Definition An expression that evaluates to a specific screen location, in the form of two integers separated by a comma. Item 1 of a point is the horizontal offset (in pixels). Item 2 of a point is the vertical offset (in pixels). For example: 91,303 "91,303" "30" & "," & "100" the clickLoc
AppleScript Definition An expression that evaluates to a specific screen location, in the form of a list with two integer elements. For example: { 91, 303 } clickLoc
buttonHyperTalk Definition An expression that identifies a button by name, number, or id, using one of the following forms: [card] button id posInteger [of card] [card] button text [of card] -- name [card] button posInteger [of card] ordinal [card] button [of card] bkgnd button id posInteger [of card] bkgnd button text [of card] -- name bkgnd button posInteger [of card] ordinal bkgnd button [of card]
For example: card button id 3894 card button "Return" card button 1 first card button bkgnd button 2 of card 2 last bkgnd button
When used inside a button script: me When a button receives a message: [the] target A button can also be referred to as a part when you’re talking about its position among all buttons and fields within the same card or background. AppleScript Definition An expression that identifies a button by name, number, or id, using the same forms as HyperTalk except that “background” must be used in place of “bkgnd”. windowOne of HyperCard’s built-in windows, the window containing the current stack (called the card window), or any other window containing a stack, as follows: card window tool window window "tools" pattern window window "Patterns" scroll window window "scroll" [the] message [window] [the] message [box] [the] msg [window] [the] msg [box] window "message" message watcher window "message watcher" variable watcher window "variable watcher" window "Home" window "Readymade Buttons" -- if longWindowTitles is true: window "My HD:Home" window 6 window ID 21403082
Note: If a window containing a stack is inactive, you can set only its location and visible properties. Important: External windows can’t be substituted for the window placeholder (see the externalWindow placeHolder). externalWindowA window displayed by an external command or an external function; a window that’s not one of HyperCard’s built-in windows: window "navigator" window "Script of stack My HD:Home" window "JT's Cool Palette"
See also: window placeholder
HyperTalk Reference
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