XDrawString(3X11)														 XDrawString(3X11)

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

       Specifies  the  drawable.   Specifies  the connection to the X server.  Specifies the GC.  Specifies the number of characters in the string
       argument.  Specifies the character string.  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

       A  value  for  a Drawable argument does not name a defined Window or Pixmap.  A value for a GContext argument does not name a defined GCon-
       text.  An InputOnly window is used as a Drawable.  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

																 XDrawString(3X11)