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newButton

newButton

Handler:

on newButton
   statements
end newButton

HyperCard sends the newButton message to a button just after HyperCard creates it.

Although the new button will not have a script with which to respond to the message, any other object along the message-passing path can handle it.

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statements
Any 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

newButton

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