The routines of this theme allow managing off-screen areas and external areas displayed in forms. The allow you to create or erase an off-screen area, to paste the content of a field or a BLOB variable in an external area or off-screen, or to save a 4D View area in a field or a BLOB variable.
Additionally, this theme gathers commands allowing the programmer to intercept different types of events detected by a 4D View area, to build their own error manager and also manage 4D View commands accessible using menus or palettes.
In this theme, several commands make reference to the "callback" concept: this mechanism is used here to link a method to an event, error or 4D View command. Every time 4D View detects an event, error or the activation of a menu command, the 4D project method defined by the area settings is executed: in this context, this method is called a "callback method".
The PV Area theme commands that make reference to callback methods are: