ultrix man page for xdrawstring

XDrawString(3X11)						     MIT X11R4							 XDrawString(3X11)

Name
       XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters

Syntax
       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 draw-
       able is modified only where the font character has a bit set to 1.  For fonts defined with 2-byte matrix indexing and used with 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.

       and can generate and 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 GContext.

       An	 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)
       X Window System: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys

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