Name

XTextWidth, XTextWidth16 − compute text width

Syntax

int XTextWidth(font_struct, string, count)
   XFontStruct *font_struct;
   char *string;
   int count;

int XTextWidth16(font_struct, string, count)
   XFontStruct *font_struct;
   XChar2b *string;
   int count;

Arguments

countSpecifies the character count in the specified string. 

font_structSpecifies the font used for the width computation. 

stringSpecifies the character string. 

Description

The XTextWidth and XTextWidth16 functions return the width of the specified 8-bit or 2-byte character strings.

See Also

XLoadFont(3X11), XTextExtents(3X11)
X Window System: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys