XTextWidth(XS)    X Version 11 (Release 5) 6 January 1993     XTextWidth(XS)


 Name

    XTextWidth - 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


    count       Specifies the character count in the specified string.

    fontstruct Specifies the font used for the width computation.

    string      Specifies the character string.

 Description

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

 See also

    XLoadFont(XS), XTextExtents(XS)
    Xlib - C Language X Interface