How to paint a background and place graphics on top of if?

[Thomas Gutzmann]

Hi Sarah and Ben,

ok, I wasn't very clear:

- I want to PAINT, not DRAW by script; using graphics is not possible 
because there would be too many objects, making scrolling and dragging 
too slow, so I want to create a "background" picture instead. I don't 
find out how use the paint tools in  a script.

- at times I want to repaint portions of the picture (because I don't 
have graphic objects); it would be easy if I had soemthing like a 
cliptrect which helps me limit the painting to just that portion.

The second is not so essential because I can replace cliptrect with a 
bit of thinking. But the painting thing is a pure mystery to me, still.

Cheers,

Thomas G.


Am 31.01.2005 um 00:54 schrieb Sarah Reichelt:

>> Back in the good old days of Pascal, I declared the CliptRect, 
>> painted the whole picture, and I was sure that only the ClitpRect was 
>> painted - performance was excellent event on a 68000. There was 
>> something as easy as lineTo - but what is the equivalent in Rev? It 
>> must be there, because I can use the paint tool to draw lines, 
>> patterns and so forth - but how to do it under script control?
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you need, but you can create graphics 
> objects easily enough by script:
>