[29 Aug 2009] another Feature Request

[nexus]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:34:36 +0200

It would be very nice and convenient, if one could display textobjects and also boxes, circles etc. in "hidden" mode. It would help to get groups of layerIds before actually drawing them on the screen.

At the moment, you have to draw them outside the screen, hide them and move them back, right? (or (maybe ?) "select" a backround layer, draw them, and finish selection (which is also not always convenient).

Displaying objects on the visible display and hiding them immediately afterwards, causes the display to flicker (which is not that nice.)

So, please allow the option "hidden=true" to all disply/drawing-object routines

Thanks, Tom

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:13:18 +0200

It would be very nice and convenient, if one could display textobjects and also boxes, circles etc. in "hidden" mode. It would help to get groups of layerIds before actually drawing them on the screen.

At the moment, you have to draw them outside the screen, hide them and move them back, right? (or (maybe ?) "select" a backround layer, draw them, and finish selection (which is also not always convenient).

Displaying objects on the visible display and hiding them immediately afterwards, causes the display to flicker (which is not that nice.)

So, please allow the option "hidden=true" to all disply/drawing-object routines

You can use InsertLayer() to create hidden layers but that will only work with brushes, text objects etc. If you want to create hidden boxes and circles, you have to do something like:

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SelectBGPic(1)   ; assuming that 1 is the current BGPic
Box(....)
Circle(...)
EndSelect

This will chain hidden layers. I agree that this is not very convenient. I should probably really add a "Hidden" option for all the gfx commands...