Think of a stencil, placed between the pen and the image, and you'll have the idea. Using patterns in Pickle images is a bit esoteric, owing to the difficulty of specifying a pattern to begin with. See the descriptions of picSetPenPattern and picClearPenPattern for more information on patterns. This means that if you have several images open at once, they do not share the same pen information, and changing the color in one doesn't mean that all the others suddenly begin speaking in tongues. The Pickle functions used for manipulating the current font are picGetFont , picSetFont , picSetFontSize , picSetFontStyle , picResizeFontBy , and picGetAvailableFonts .
Every image has a background, which consists of a color and a pattern.
For new images, this color is white, and the pattern is solid. The background color and pattern are used when you call any picErase function, like picEraseOval . Pickle does not currently support transparency of any kind. The final image attribute is the video source. If your web server does not have a QuickTime-enabled video digitizer installed, this section doesn't apply to you, but if you have a QuickCam, TV Tuner, or other video capture device installed, Pickle provides functions for inserting this video content into your images.