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XDrawString, XDrawString16
- draw text characters
- 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);
- 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. and define the
origin of the first character
- x
- y
- Specify the x and y coordinates, which are relative to the origin of
the specified drawable .
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.
- 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.
XDrawImageString(3)
,
XDrawText(3)
, XLoadFont(3)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
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