Thanks Igor. That was exactly what I was looking for.

Igor Stasenko wrote:

On 10 January 2013 14:42, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
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I need to improve the performance of a lot of text that drawn on screen
while the screen is being dragged around and would like to experiment with
rendering the text to a bitmap buffer then painting that onto a canvas. �How
might that be achieved? �And from Workspace can I test this? �I have been
searching for a couple of hours already so thought I'd just ask.

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easy.

form := Form extent: 100@100 depth: 32.

canvas := form getCanvas.
canvas drawString... whatever.

and then:

displayCanvas drawImage: form.



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cheers -ben

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