THE HYPERCARD CENTER

HyperTalk Reference

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hide

hide menuBar

hide titleBar

hide groups

hide card picture

hide background picture

hide picture of card

hide picture of bkgnd

hide field

hide button

hide window

hide externalWindow

The hide command removes HyperCard objects and elements from view.

hide menuBar removes the menu bar from the top of the screen.

hide titleBar removes the title bar on the card window.

Use both of these commands with care: hiding the menu bar, or the title bar of a window, may confuse your users.

The hide groups command removes the two-pixel gray underline displayed for all text that has the “group” text style. The underline appears only after a show groups command.

For graphics, the hide command removes the card or background picture from view. It’s the same as setting the showPict property of the card or background to false.

For buttons, fields, and windows, the hide command is equivalent to setting the visible property to false.

If you hide the frontmost document window, the next document window becomes active. Hide does not remove an external window from the window list (from memory); use the close command to dispose of the window.

Examples

hide card window

-- built-in windows:

hide tool window

hide window "tools"

hide Message box

hide window "Message"

hide message watcher

hide window "Message Watcher"

hide variable watcher

hide window "Variable Watcher"

-- external windows:

hide window "Navigator"

hide window "Script of My HD:Home"

hide button 1

hide second bkgnd field

hide picture of card 3

hide pict of first cd

hide picture of background "jazz"

Demo Script

on hideDemo

  set cursor to watch

  hide titleBar

  lock screen

  hide bkgnd field "demo script"

  show bkgnd field "demo field"

  displayMessage "Let us go then you and I"

  unlock screen with dissolve

  wait 2 seconds

  lock screen

  hide bkgnd field "demo field"

  show bkgnd field "demo script"

  unlock screen with dissolve

  show titleBar

end hideDemo

hide

Examples

Demo Script

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