Draw to displayio Group. about adafruit_circuitpython_turtle

[poetaster]

Ah, I think I should be looking at:

self._splash.append(self._bg_addon_group)

using the addon group? I have a set of onscreen controls that I want to hide and show between drawing (L-Systems) ...

[FoamyGuy]

Are you trying to have the turtle drawing appear on top of your other group? Or are you intending to sometimes show your other group, and other times show the turtle drawing?

the code you have now:

self._splash.append(self._bg_addon_group)

would put your addon group on top of the drawing I believe which could cover it up depending on what the turtle has drawn.

If you are intending to show one or the other and switch back and forth instead of adding your other group to self._splash you'd want to just show your other group with board.DISPLAY.root_group = bg_addon_group and then switch back to the turtle drawing with board.DISPLAY.root_group = turtle._splash

[poetaster]

Ok, I had the draw in foreground working with turtle._bg_addon_group.append(mysplash) but the root_group approach could come in handy. I should just have read the turtle driver code init first :) Thanks for your efforts.