XDrawString(3X)                                   XDrawString(3X)



NAME
     XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters

SYNOPSIS
     XDrawString (display, d, gc, x, y, string, length)
     Display *display;
     Drawable d;
     GC gc;
     int x,y;
     char *string;
     int length;

     XDrawString16 (display, d, gc, x, y, string, length)
     Display *display;
     Drawable d;
     GC gc;
     int x,y;
     XChar2b* string;
     int length;

DESCRIPTION
     The XDrawString and XDrawString16 functions draw 8-bit and
     16-bit text characters in the specified drawable.

     Each character image, as defined by the font in the graphic
     context is treated as an additional mask for a fill opera-
     tion on the drawable.  The drawable is modified only where
     the font character has a bit set to 1.  For fonts defined
     with 2-byte matrix indexing and used with XDrawString16,
     each byte is used as a byte2 with a byte1 of 0.

     Both functions use these graphic context components: func-
     tion, plane-mask, fill-style, font, subwindow-mode, clip-x-
     origin, clip-y-origin, and clip-mask.  They also use these
     mode-dependent graphic context components: foreground, back-
     ground, tile, stipple, tile-stipple-x-origin, and tile-
     stipple-y-origin.

   Arguments
     These functions accept the following arguments:

     d       Specifies the drawable.

     display Specifies the connection to the X server.

     gc      Specifies the graphic context.

     length  Specifies the number of characters in the string ar-
             gument.

     string  Specifies the character string.




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XDrawString(3X)                                   XDrawString(3X)



     x, y    Specify the x and y coordinates.

ERRORS
     BadDrawable
             A value for a Drawable argument does not name a de-
             fined window or pixel map.

     BadGC   A value for a GC argument does not name a defined
             graphic context.

     BadMatch
             An InputOnly window is used as a drawable; or, an
             argument or pair of arguments has the correct type
             and range but fails to match in some other required
             way.

     XDrawString and XDrawString16 can generate
     BadDrawable, BadGC, and BadMatch errors.

SEE ALSO
     XCreateGC(3X), XDrawImageString(3X), XDrawText(3X),
     XLoadFont(3X)

     Xlib - C Language Interface
































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