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