In the program I'm writing all I want to do is temporarily display a box of
information on the screen, and then when I'm done, return the information
that was under the box back to the screen, without having to execute all the
code in my paint() method (which would execute even if I did supply the
coordinates of the box in the repaint()) and without using a new window for
the box. So I'd like to first do a reverse drawImage() (like an  "Image
recordImage()") to capture the portion of the screen image that is under
where the
box will be so I can return that image later. Is this an outlandish idea?
Will
Robot.createScreenCapture() work for me? Or is there a core AWT method to
get this done? Thanks.

Denny