Paint tools and image creation

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > In my mind a paint tool is a 2 dimensional function. I can see using
 > the paint tool in a window displaying a single object that was not a
 > group, kind of like Microsoft Word does it. I cannot imagine trying to
 > paint an object inside a group as though an artist could reach his
 > paintbrush 3 dimensionally into his painting and touch up a bush that
 > was behind a tree!

It's common for applications to have content regions larger than the 
window, accommodated with scrollbars.

In LiveCode, that requires a group.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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