G.1 Window Stream Operations in CLIM

G.1.1 Clearing and Refreshing the Drawing Plane

CLIM supports the following operators for clearing and refreshing the drawing plane:

window-clear [Generic Function]

Arguments:
window
Summary:
Clears the entire drawing plane of window, filling it with the background ink.

window-erase-viewport [Generic Function]
Arguments:
window
Summary:
Clears the visible part of window's drawing plane, filling it with background ink.

window-refresh [Generic Function]
Arguments:
window
Summary:
Clears the visible part of the drawing plane of window, and then replays all of the output records in the visible part of the drawing plane.


CLIM 2.0 User's Guide - OCT 1998

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