CT New offscreen area

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CT New offscreen area Longint

CT New offscreen area creates a 4D Chart offscreen area and returns the area's ID. The value returned by CT New offscreen area can be used in any 4D Chart command that requires a 4D Chart area.

This example searches for a record, creates an offscreen area, copies a document from the record into the area, and then prints the area.

      `Search for the record
   QUERY ([Table3];[Table3]Field1 = "Level1")
      `Create a new offscreen area   
   $Offscreen := CT New offscreen area
      `Copy the document stored in a field   
   CT FIELD TO AREA ($Offscreen;3;2)
      `Print the area   
   CT PRINT ($Offscreen;0)   
      `Get rid of the offscreen area         
   CT DELETE OFFSCREEN AREA ($Offscreen)  

CT AREA TO AREA, CT DELETE OFFSCREEN AREA.