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

X Version 11                                      libX11 1.6.9                                    XDrawString(3)