>>You can use the Windows API to, say, move an object from A to B, but you will need to tell VFP to "erase" at A and (re)write at B, after you have done your moving "between A and B" via the Windows API (between screen/form locks).
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>Wasn't this the definition of the (Star Trek) teleport? "Erase me here, draw me there".

I think it was more of an atomizer/condensor ...