NAME

charstr - draw a string of raster characters on the screen

SYNOPSIS

C
charstr(str)
String str;

FORTRAN
subroutine charst(str)
character*(*) str

Pascal
procedure charstr(str: String);

DESCRIPTION

Charstr draws a string of text using a raster font.  The origin of the first character in the string will be placed at the current character position.  After each character is drawn, the current character position is updated by the character’s spacing parameter.  The text string is drawn in the currently selected raster font and color, using the current writemask.  Characters that are not defined in the current raster font are ignored. 

SEE ALSO

cmov, defrasterfont, font

Version 2.3  —  July 04, 1985