Is there something like masks from photoshop?

[stephenk]

In my object’s paint() method, I’m trying to:

• draw some stuff
• set up a clipping rect and draw several paths with different colors such that anything outside the clip region is clipped.
• go back to the original clipping shape, and draw some more stuff outside of my clipping rect.

EDIT: deleted long explanation and wrong assumptions…

I found the answer here:

Reset clip region on Graphics

There’s no way to do that, and no need. If you want to reduce the clip and then reset it, you’d do something like this: [code]g.saveState(); g.reduceClipRegion (…); …draw here with the reduced region g.restoreState(); …and it’s back to normal here[/code]

All I needed to do is:

// draw some stuff first
g.fillAll(someColour.withAlpha(alpha));
  
// set up a clipping rect
Rectangle<int> clip = getLocalBounds().reduced(20, 20);

// save state
g.saveState();

// reduce the clipping region:
g.reduceClipRegion(clip);

// draw all the path stuff here

// restore the state
g.restoreState();

// draw more stuff here outside of the clipping rect