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deleteBackground

Handler:

HyperCard sends the deleteBackground message to the card that is being deleted if no other cards in the stack share its background. HyperCard sends the message just before the card disappears.

Note: You cannot stop a background from being deleted by trapping the deleteBackground message. Instead, you must handle the doMenu message or set the cantDelete property for the background.

Related Topics

• cantDelete
• closeBackground
• doMenu
• Message sending orders
• newBackground
• openBackground
• Where messages are sent initially

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Any return-separated list of built-in commands, user-defined handlers, or keywords that are part of a message or function handler.