NAME

       XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters

SYNTAX

       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 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