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, BadGC, and
      BadMatch errors.




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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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