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From: face@arizona.edu (Chris "Face" Janton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Preventing menubar and message box hiding
Message-ID: <1297@amethyst.math.arizona.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 90 01:04:00 GMT
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In article <1990Jan2.154142.5638@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David 
Elliott) writes:
> Is there a way to tell HyperCard to ignore commands for hiding the
> menubar and message box?  My screen is large enough to not need

Here is the code from my Home stack - I can't remember exactly why I did 
it this way, but it does the trick

on hide what
  if what = "menubar" then
    put foo into temp
  else if what is in "234" then
    put foo into temp
  else
    pass hide
  end if
end hide

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Chris 'Face' Janton
CCIT 
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721
Phone: +1 602 621-6848