>Yes it's a canvas but the rotated text is in a picture assigned to
>the backdrop as i wanted easy transparancy and did not want to have to
>worry about refresh routines.
You'll probably want to use an offscreen buffer for something like this
(I'm assuming you're rotating text or moving it or something as the user
drags). You'd do this by using NewPicture to create a picture of
appropriate size and bit depth, then draw into it. When you're ready to
copy that to the screen, just DrawPicture it into the Canvas, and it
draws over whatever was there (ie, no erasing).
The downside is that you're not going to get the transparency that way.
It's the erasing that gives you the background, and if you're not
erasing... But you could always draw the background into the offscreen
Picture object before drawing the text, and you'd get the same effect --
though it's not quite as flexible.
-Thomas
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