Warren:

>I have a tiny window in which a colored box is painted while the app is
>running in the background. I do a   PICTURE ON - PICTURE OFF,myBox&   thing
>that then gets placed on the scrapbook. Everything works fine except the
>box doesn't get  to scrapbook as it does when the app is  up front.

It sounds like you're drawing the colored box into a window rather than a 
GWorld. Is the window you're drawing into visible, or is it hidden 
underneath another window?

I suspect that the window is hidden, and thus its visible region is cut 
down to nothing. I don't recall exactly how this affects PICTURE ON/OFF, 
but it may mean that no drawing commands are actually being saved.

-Mars