NAME

XListFonts, XFreeFontNames − obtain and free font names

SYNTAX

char ∗∗XListFonts(display, pattern, maxnames, actual_count_return)
      Display ∗display;
      char ∗pattern;
      int maxnames;
      int ∗actual_count_return;

XFreeFontNames(list)
      char ∗list[];

ARGUMENTS

actual_count_return
Returns the actual number of font names.

displaySpecifies the connection to the X server. 

listSpecifies the array of strings you want to free. 

maxnamesSpecifies the maximum number of names that are to be in the returned list. 

patternSpecifies the null-terminated string associated with the font names that you want returned.  You can specify any string, an asterisk “∗”, or a question mark “?”.  The asterisk indicates a wildcard on any number of characters, and the question mark indicates a wildcard on a single character. 

DESCRIPTION

The XListFonts function returns an array of available font names (as controlled by the font search path; see XSetFontPath) that match the string you passed to the pattern argument.

The XFreeFontNames function frees the array and strings returned by XListFonts.

SEE ALSO

XLoadFont(3X), XSetFontPath(3X)
Xlib − C Language X Interface

1 March 1988