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HyperTalk Reference

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newCard

Handler:

HyperCard sends the newCard message to the current card (in this case, the new one) just after HyperCard creates it.

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

Related Topics

• closeCard
• deleteCard
• Message sending orders
• 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.