PG> currentpicture :=nullpicture; PG> draw pic scaled 3 ; PG> PG> clears the first picture.
but i only intend to draw one picture... PG> PG> is this a question? Did you try the code?
i did, but it has side-effects... it will scale, but the color disappears too. try. ----- %% interface=english output=pdftex \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled .1pt) ; w0 := 0cm ; w1 := 1.2cm ; w2 := 2.7 cm ; w3 := 3.0cm ; ww0 := 0.96cm ; ww1 := 1.2cm ; ww2 := 1.8cm ; ww3 := 2.4cm ; path p ; p := (w0,w0)--(w0,ww0)--(w1,ww1)--(w3,ww2)--(w3,w0)--cycle ; drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled .1pt withcolor .625yellow) ; draw hlingrid(0, 5, 1, 3cm, 3cm) ; draw vlingrid(0, 10, 1, 3cm, 3cm) ; drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled 1mm withcolor black) ; dotlabel.top ("1" , point 1 of p) ; dotlabel.top ("2" , point 2 of p) ; dotlabel.top ("3" , point 3 of p) ; %%%%% enable/disable this section %%%%%%%%%% picture pic ; pic := currentpicture ; currentpicture := nullpicture ; draw pic scaled 1.0 ; %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext