DrawString equivalent?

[Richard Gaskin]

RCS wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to quickly draw text on the screen without
> creating an object? I am thinking of the old Macintosh ToolBox 'DrawString"
> function (or 'textBox') that allowed you to just draw a text string anywhere
> on the screen. I would like to use this for information 'on the fly', and
> the circumstances would be different enough that there could not be an
> existing object that I could use (i.e. a field, button, etc.)....

You could write an external, but then you have to do it for each platform.

If you lock messages and the screen then creating a field on the fly should
be pretty quick.

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