Graphics.spin opaque characters

softex

I'm having reasonable success creating decent-looking text output using graphic.spin with the vector fonts, but to erase intermittent data (like the seconds on a clock, say) I'm using the low-tech method of writing a box with the background color (white) over the data. Is there any way to write "opaque" characters in the first place, so the intermittent data does not have to be cleared?

-Dave

Baggers

Hi Dave,
You can either clear the area like you're doing, OR you can draw bitmapped characters to that area [noparse]:D[/noparse]

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softex

Thanks Baggers,

I just wanted to hear from someone who is much more up-to-speed on this than I am, that I wasn't missing something obvious. By tightening my clearing code I got it working in a more flexible manner, and the vector fonts are looking much better than I thought they would and are, of course, scalable - which is what I was after.

-D

Baggers

Ah right, then if scalability is what you're after, then go vectors
you could scale bitmapped text, but it isn't as clean as the scaled vectors.

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