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From: rg2c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Nelson Gasch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Drawstring Problem
Message-ID: <gb6MX8600UhWQ0dklE@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 10:00:40 GMT
Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm using graphics and the Drawstring function. I need to use Drawstring
since I have to display status lines that get updated. The problem is,
once you have put something in your window with Drawstring, it is
like you glued it to the window. You can't write over it since that will just 
put the new string over the old one and you end up with something
completeley unledgible. What is the most sensible way to erase strings
in this situation? The method should be flexible as the size of the
text displaying area is subject to frequent change.
If anybody has done something like this and solved this problem in a
sensible manner, please let me know the details of how you went about
it. The perfect thing would be to just write over the old string. I've
tried this, but could not get it to work.

Thanx alot --> Rob