using layer.style.clip or layer.style.visibility

[morgancaroline]

I'm using layers and want to clip a certain section of a layer. If I write:
layer.style.clip = 'rect(' + cliptop + ' ' + clipright + ' ' + clipbottom + ' ' + clipleft + ')';

it shows the layer from the point (cliptop,clipright) to (clipbottom,clipleft) but i want some kind of inverted clip command so that instead of showing a layer from one point to another it hides that layer from one pt to another so as to achieve an r-shaped layer as oppose to a square shaped layer.
I thought of using poly instead of rect and defining 7 points but the computer didn't see to like the poly command.
I also thought about using:

layer.style.visibility = "hidden";
but i don't know where the command to define the rectangle that i want hidden should go.

hope you can help
thanx

 

[iza]

well, clip sets the shape and not the visibility - and visibility or display apply to the whole layer ... how about creating a new layer above the main one and hiding this new layer ? ------
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