The background you are drawing to is part of the canvas also. Fillrect is one way as you said. If there is some kind of image etc in the background that you have no control of then you need to take a snapshot of it before you overlay your text. Then use it to "fillrect" with a draw command before you write the text again
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of vss Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2002 10:25 a.m. To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Canvas Hi all. I am drawing some text on to a canvas with the brush style set to clear. But when I draw some more text, it still has the old text there and its all jumbled up. If I do a fillrect with the brush style set to solid its fine obviously, apart from a rect the colour of the brush, but how do I clear the canvas when I am drawing on it with the Brush style set to clear? i.e. draw some text with the bs clear, then clear the canvas, i.e. the text goes away, then redraw the next bit of text. I feel I should know this....hmmm Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
