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XDrawString(3X11)	       XLIB FUNCTIONS		    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 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(3X11), XDrawText(3X11), XLoadFont(3X11)
  Xlib - C Language X Interface
























































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