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Index › Programming Questions & Help › Syntax Questions › toggle background erasing on/off

mow YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	toggle background erasing on/off Jan 14th, 2008, 10:04pm   hello there, is there a way to toggle the background erasing on and off? i want to combine a few sketches in one sketch so i can switch between them but some uses background and some doesn't. any ideas? thanks, mow.

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: toggle background erasing on/off Reply #1 - Jan 15th, 2008, 6:41am   ... don't use background() if you don't want to erase the background. Code: void draw() { switch(sketch) { case 0: background(255); // erase background and draw stuff break; case 1: // draw stuff without erasing background break; } }