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deleteCard

Handler:

HyperCard sends the deleteCard message to a card that is being deleted just before the card disappears.

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

Related Topics

• cantDelete
• closeCard
• doMenu
• Message sending orders
• newCard
• openCard
• Where messages are sent initially

Placeholders

statements

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