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deleteField
deleteField
Handler:
on deleteField statementsend deleteField
HyperCard sends the deleteField message to a field that is being deleted just before the field disappears.
Note: You cannot stop a field from being deleted by trapping the deleteField message. Instead, you must handle the doMenu message.
Related Topics
- closeField
- doMenu
- enterInField
- exitField
- newField
- openField
- returnInField
- 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.
put "Hello world" -- built-in commandget total(field 1) -- function callglobal HelpInfo -- keyword
deleteField
