jonathan said:
>   Use the 'blend' mode when copybitsing them to screen

never been able to get these modes to work,
at least not the way i want them to.
do you have any code?

but i don't think this will answer the question anyway.

i want the picture field,
if it is obscuring any text,
to _move_ to another place where it is not.

(even resizing itself smaller in the case where
there isn't a big enough chunk of white space
to put itself in without resizing.)

i've got a rough approximation to it now;
it's kind of clumsy, but it's good enough.

one little thing that would really help me though
is being able to determine, for any specific letter
in the text field, what its x/y coordinates are.
can anyone help there?

-bowerbird