longWindowTitles

set the longWindowTitles ¬
    to trueOrFalse

The longWindowTitles returns or sets whether HyperCard displays the full path name of a stack in the title bar of all windows that contain stacks. Its default value is false.

WARNING: Commands or properties that reference stack windows by name won't work once you set the longWindowTitles to true because the name becomes the full path name of a stack.

For example, compare the following two commands:

show window "Home" 
show window "My HD:HyperCard:Home"

The first works only when the longWindowTitles is false, the second only when it's true. Check the value of the longWindowTitles before you use such commands or properties, or force it to be false in your stack (which takes away the feature).

Examples

get the longWindowTitles

set the longWindowTitles to true

Demo Script

on longWindowTitlesDemo
  set the cursor to watch
  set the longWindowTitles to not the longWindowTitles
  wait 2 second
  set the longWindowTitles to not the longWindowTitles
end longWindowTitlesDemo

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trueOrFalse
Any 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"

longWindowTitles

Examples

Demo Script

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