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;
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
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tile-stipple-y-origin.
XDrawString and XDrawString16 can generate BadDrawable,
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)
Xlib Programming Manual
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