Noob question about drawing

Hi All,

I'm trying to do something that I think should be pretty simple but I'm not happy with the way I found that *might* work.

I'm just trying to do some simple blocky graphics, drawing in an 8x8 grid of chunky pixels. I can create the image I want by using a matrixctrl object and clicking the appropriate intersections, but I'd like more control over it.

I'd like to have the functionality of an iTable, but the problem with the iTable is that it seems like there's no real way to clear it. Yes, I can send a "clear" message to it, but that just sets all the values to 0, it doesn't actually hide them.

Is there a better way to do this than by creating eight 8x9 matricies, setting their opacity to zero, and piling them on top of each other? Even if I did that, I'd still need to hide that zero row at the bottom to mimic a truly empty 8x8 grid.

Ultimately, I'd like to apply this as something that fades in and out over a movie, so maybe there are some jitter objects better suited to what I want to do?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

-Maashu