Hi! this code
procedure TForm1.DrawBtnClick(Sender: TObject); {Draw some ellipses on the canvas - random size and color} var i:integer; cx,cy:integer; begin with image1, canvas do begin for i:= 1 to 10 do begin cx:=random(width); cy:=random(height); brush.color:=random(256*256*256); ellipse(cx,cy,cx+random(100), cy+random(100)); end; end; end; will draw 10 ellipses on Image1. However, I want to do it interactively, like it is done in Photo-Paint. The ellipse should be contained in a rectangle R whose upper-left corner is given by the original position of the mouse on screen. And the bottom-right corner of R will be the final position of the mouse. During dragging, a temporary ellipse should be shown on screen and the mouse will be cross-shaped. Any idea re how to do it ? An unexpensive well debugged 3th-party library would be the ideal solution (as I don't plan to work in graphics in the future). Thank you Duilio _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal