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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                  XDrawString(3x11)



NAME
     XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters

SYNTAX
     cc [ flag... ] file... -lX11 [ library... ]

     int XDrawString(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x,
          int y, char *string, int length);

     int XDrawString16(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int
          x, int 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 rela-
               tive 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 BadMatch errors.

DIAGNOSTICS
     BadDrawable
               A value for a Drawable argument does not name a
               defined Window or Pixmap.




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XLIB FUNCTIONS                                  XDrawString(3x11)



     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), XLoadFont(3x11)
     Xlib - C Language X Interface


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | x11/library/libx11          |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Committed                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | MT-Level                    | See XInitThreads(3X11)      |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|




























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