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LoseTheGame YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Redrawing rather than addition Dec 6th, 2007, 10:26am   hi, if i draw a rectangle at position x, and increase x over time (or by pressing a key), it seems to keep adding a new rectangle at each new x, rather than redrawing it so you can't see the original... i didn't have this problem before but i'm not sure what i'm doing differently. cheers.

V Senior Member Offline Posts: 430 portugal	Re: Redrawing rather than addition Reply #1 - Dec 6th, 2007, 10:37am   seems to me that you miss a call to background( .. ) in your mainloop. it clears up the color buffer each frame
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LoseTheGame YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: Redrawing rather than addition Reply #2 - Dec 6th, 2007, 10:38am   cheers, i knew i was being stupid