XDrawString(3X11) X11R5 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 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.
and can generate and errors.
DIAGNOSTICS
A value for a Drawable argument does not name a defined Window or
Pixmap.
A value for a GContext argument does not name a defined GContext.
An window is used as a Drawable.
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 ALSOXDrawImageString(3X11), XDrawText(3X11), XLoadFont(3X11)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
XDrawString(3X11)