Erasing in a Paint Routine

[aaronventure]

Is there a way to erase things in a paint routine?

How would I draw a crescent moon, or hole out text in a rectangle so that the text is a see-through of whatever is underneath that widget?

[d.healey]

@aaronventure I don't think there are any fancy things like that available. To draw a crescent moon I'd either paint a circle over a circle (if the background is a solid colour) or use an svg.

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey yes complex shapes are best imported as path using the SVG conversion tool. You can import different layers as multiple monochromatic patches if you want to change them dynamically or use a single multicoloured but static SVG image.

[TNTHM]

@Christoph-Hart Is it possible to upload an image through a server and then convert it to an svg and paint it?