XDrawString(3X11)XDrawString(3X11)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
Specifies the drawable. Specifies the connection to the X server.
Specifies the GC. Specifies the number of characters in the string
argument. Specifies the character string. Specify the x and y coordi‐
nates, 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 tile-stipple-y-
origin.
XDrawString and XDrawString16 can generate BadDrawable, BadGC, and Bad‐
Match 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 GCon‐
text. An InputOnly 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)
