1XDrawString(3X11)               XLIB FUNCTIONS               XDrawString(3X11)
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NAME

6       XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters
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SYNTAX

9       int XDrawString(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int y, char
10              *string, int length);
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12       int XDrawString16(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int y,
13              XChar2b *string, int length);
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ARGUMENTS

16       d         Specifies the drawable.
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18       display   Specifies the connection to the X server.
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20       gc        Specifies the GC.
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22       length    Specifies the number of characters in the string argument.
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24       string    Specifies the character string.
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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       Each character image, as defined by the font in the GC, is treated as
34       an additional mask for a fill operation on the drawable.  The drawable
35       is modified only where the font character has a bit set to 1.  For
36       fonts defined with 2-byte matrix indexing and used with XDrawString16,
37       each byte is used as a byte2 with a byte1 of zero.
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39       Both functions use these GC components: function, plane-mask, fill-
40       style, font, subwindow-mode, clip-x-origin, clip-y-origin, and clip-
41       mask.  They also use these GC mode-dependent components: foreground,
42       background, tile, stipple, tile-stipple-x-origin, and tile-stipple-y-
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45       XDrawString and XDrawString16 can generate BadDrawable, BadGC, and Bad‐
46       Match errors.
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DIAGNOSTICS

49       BadDrawable
50                 A value for a Drawable argument does not name a defined Win‐
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53       BadGC     A value for a GContext argument does not name a defined GCon‐
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56       BadMatch  An InputOnly window is used as a Drawable.
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58       BadMatch  Some argument or pair of arguments has the correct type and
59                 range but fails to match in some other way required by the
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SEE ALSO

63       XDrawImageString(3X11), XDrawText(3X11), XLoadFont(3X11)
64       Xlib - C Language X Interface
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68X Version 11                     libX11 1.0.3                XDrawString(3X11)
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