XDrawText(3X11)                      SysV                      XDrawText(3X11)



NAME
     XDrawText, XDrawText16 - draw polytext text

SYNTAX
     XDrawText(display, d, gc, x, y, items, nitems)
           Display *display;
           Drawable d;
           GC gc;
           int x, y;
           XTextItem *items;
           int nitems;

     XDrawText16(display, d, gc, x, y, items, nitems)
           Display *display;
           Drawable d;
           GC gc;
           int x, y;
           XTextItem16 *items;
           int nitems;

ARGUMENTS
     d         Specifies the drawable.

     display   Specifies the connection to the X server.

     gc        Specifies the GC.

     items     Specifies a pointer to an array of text items.

     nitems    Specifies the number of text items in the array.

     x
     y         Specify the x and y coordinates, which are relative to the
               origin of the specified drawable and define the origin of the
               first character.

DESCRIPTION
     The XDrawText16 function is similar to XDrawText except that it uses 2-
     byte or 16-bit characters.  Both functions allow complex spacing and font
     shifts between counted strings.

     Each text item is processed in turn.  A font member other than None in an
     item causes the font to be stored in the GC and used for subsequent text.
     A text element delta specifies an additional change in the position along
     the x axis before the string is drawn. The delta is always added to the
     character origin and is not dependent on any characteristics of the font.
     Each character image, as defined by the font in the GC, is treated as an
     additional mask for a fill operation on the drawable.  The drawable is
     modified only where the font character has a bit set to 1.  If a text
     item generates a BadFont error, the previous text items may have been
     drawn.

     For fonts defined with linear indexing rather than 2-byte matrix
     indexing, each XChar2b structure is interpreted as a 16-bit number with
     byte1 as the most-significant byte.

     Both functions use these GC components: function, plane-mask, fill-style,
     font, subwindow-mode, clip-x-origin, clip-y-origin, and clip-mask.  They
     also use these GC mode-dependent components: foreground, background,
     tile, stipple, tile-stipple-x-origin, and tile-stipple-y-origin.

     XDrawText and XDrawText16 can generate BadDrawable, BadFont, BadGC, and
     BadMatch errors.

DIAGNOSTICS
     BadDrawable
               A value for a Drawable argument does not name a defined Window
               or Pixmap.

     BadFont   A value for a Font or GContext argument does not name a defined
               Font.

     BadGC     A value for a GContext argument does not name a defined
               GContext.

     BadMatch  An InputOnly window is used as a Drawable.

SEE ALSO
     XDrawImageString(3X11), XDrawString(3X11)
     Xlib - C Language X Interface