XDrawString.3X11.z(3X11)



     XDrawString(3X11)   X Version 11 (Release 5)    XDrawString(3X11)



     NAME
          XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters

     SYNTAX
          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;

     ARGUMENTS
          d         Specifies the drawable.

          display   Specifies the connection to the X server.

          gc        Specifies the GC.

          length    Specifies the number of characters in the string
                    argument.

          string    Specifies the character string.

          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
          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.  For fonts defined with 2-byte
          matrix indexing and used with XDrawString16, each byte is
          used as a byte2 with a byte1 of zero.

          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.

          XDrawString and XDrawString16 can generate BadDrawable,



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          BadGC, and BadMatch errors.

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

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

          BadMatch  An InputOnly window is used as a Drawable.

          BadMatch  Some argument or pair of arguments has the correct
                    type and range but fails to match in some other
                    way required by the request.

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




































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