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XDrawString(3X11)
X11R6
NAME
  XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters

SYNOPSIS
  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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