XDrawString(3) | Library Functions Manual | XDrawString(3)

# NAME

XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters

# SYNTAX

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

int XDrawString16(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int y, _Xconst 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 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.
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(3), XDrawText(3), XLoadFont(3)
Xlib - C Language X Interface

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