1XDrawText(3)                    XLIB FUNCTIONS                    XDrawText(3)
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NAME

6       XDrawText, XDrawText16, XTextItem, XTextItem16 - draw polytext text and
7       text drawing structures
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SYNTAX

10       int XDrawText(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int y,  XTex‐
11              tItem *items, int nitems);
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13       int  XDrawText16(Display  *display,  Drawable  d,  GC gc, int x, int y,
14              XTextItem16 *items, int nitems);
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ARGUMENTS

17       d         Specifies the drawable.
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19       display   Specifies the connection to the X server.
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21       gc        Specifies the GC.
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23       items     Specifies an array of text items.
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25       nitems    Specifies the number of text items in the array.
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27       x
28       y         Specify the x and y coordinates, which are  relative  to  the
29                 origin of the specified drawable and define the origin of the
30                 first character.
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DESCRIPTION

33       The XDrawText16 function is similar to XDrawText except  that  it  uses
34       2-byte  or 16-bit characters.  Both functions allow complex spacing and
35       font shifts between counted strings.
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37       Each text item is processed in turn.  A font member other than None  in
38       an  item causes the font to be stored in the GC and used for subsequent
39       text.  A text element delta specifies an additional change in the posi‐
40       tion  along the x axis before the string is drawn.  The delta is always
41       added to the character origin and is not dependent on any  characteris‐
42       tics  of the font.  Each character image, as defined by the font in the
43       GC, is treated as an additional mask for a fill operation on the  draw‐
44       able.  The drawable is modified only where the font character has a bit
45       set to 1.  If a text item generates a BadFont error, the previous  text
46       items may have been drawn.
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48       For fonts defined with linear indexing rather than 2-byte matrix index‐
49       ing, each XChar2b structure is interpreted  as  a  16-bit  number  with
50       byte1 as the most significant byte.
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52       Both  functions  use  these  GC components: function, plane-mask, fill-
53       style, font, subwindow-mode, clip-x-origin,  clip-y-origin,  and  clip-
54       mask.   They  also  use these GC mode-dependent components: foreground,
55       background, tile, stipple, tile-stipple-x-origin,  and  tile-stipple-y-
56       origin.
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58       XDrawText and XDrawText16 can generate BadDrawable, BadFont, BadGC, and
59       BadMatch errors.
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STRUCTURES

62       The XTextItem and XTextItem16 structures contain:
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64       typedef struct {
65               char *chars;    /* pointer to string */
66               int nchars;     /* number of characters */
67               int delta;      /* delta between strings */
68               Font font;      /* Font to print it in, None don't change */
69       } XTextItem;
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71       typedef struct {
72               XChar2b *chars; /* pointer to two-byte characters */
73               int nchars;     /* number of characters */
74               int delta;      /* delta between strings */
75               Font font;      /* font to print it in, None don't change */
76       } XTextItem16;
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78       If the font member is not None, the font is changed before printing and
79       also  is stored in the GC.  If an error was generated during text draw‐
80       ing, the previous items may have been drawn.  The baseline of the char‐
81       acters  are  drawn starting at the x and y coordinates that you pass in
82       the text drawing functions.
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84       For example,  consider  the  background  rectangle  drawn  by  XDrawIm‐
85       ageString.  If you want the upper-left corner of the background rectan‐
86       gle to be at pixel coordinate (x,y), pass the (x,y  +  ascent)  as  the
87       baseline  origin  coordinates to the text functions.  The ascent is the
88       font ascent, as given in the XFontStruct structure.  If  you  want  the
89       lower-left corner of the background rectangle to be at pixel coordinate
90       (x,y), pass the (x,y - descent + 1) as the baseline origin  coordinates
91       to  the  text  functions.  The descent is the font descent, as given in
92       the XFontStruct structure.
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DIAGNOSTICS

95       BadDrawable
96                 A value for a Drawable argument does not name a defined  Win‐
97                 dow or Pixmap.
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99       BadFont   A  value  for a Font or GContext argument does not name a de‐
100                 fined Font.
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102       BadGC     A value for a GContext argument does not name a defined GCon‐
103                 text.
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105       BadMatch  An InputOnly window is used as a Drawable.
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SEE ALSO

108       XDrawImageString(3), XDrawString(3), XLoadFont(3)
109       Xlib - C Language X Interface
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