x11r4 man page for xdrawrectangles

XDrawRectangle(3)						  XLIB FUNCTIONS						 XDrawRectangle(3)

NAME
       XDrawRectangle, XDrawRectangles, XRectangle - draw rectangles and rectangles structure

SYNTAX
       int XDrawRectangle(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int y, unsigned int width, unsigned int height);

       int XDrawRectangles(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, XRectangle rectangles[], int nrectangles);

ARGUMENTS
       d	 Specifies the drawable.

       display	 Specifies the connection to the X server.

       gc	 Specifies the GC.

       nrectangles
		 Specifies the number of rectangles in the array.

       rectangles
		 Specifies an array of rectangles.

       width
       height	 Specify the width and height, which specify the dimensions of the rectangle.

       x
       y	 Specify the x and y coordinates, which specify the upper-left corner of the rectangle.

DESCRIPTION
       The XDrawRectangle and XDrawRectangles functions draw the outlines of the specified rectangle or rectangles as if a five-point PolyLine
       protocol request were specified for each rectangle:

	      [x,y] [x+width,y] [x+width,y+height] [x,y+height] [x,y]

       For the specified rectangle or rectangles, these functions do not draw a pixel more than once.  XDrawRectangles draws the rectangles in the
       order listed in the array.  If rectangles intersect, the intersecting pixels are drawn multiple times.

       Both functions use these GC components: function, plane-mask, line-width, line-style, cap-style, join-style, fill-style, 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, tile-stipple-y-origin, dash-offset, and dash-list.

       XDrawRectangle and XDrawRectangles can generate BadDrawable, BadGC, and BadMatch errors.

STRUCTURES
       The XRectangle structure contains:

       typedef struct {
	    short x, y;
	    unsigned short width, height;
       } XRectangle;

       All x and y members are signed integers.  The width and height members are 16-bit unsigned integers.  You should be careful not to generate
       coordinates and sizes out of the 16-bit ranges, because the protocol only has 16-bit fields for these values.

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
       XDrawArc(3X11), XDrawLine(3X11), XDrawPoint(3X11)
       Xlib - C Language X Interface

X Version 11							   libX11 1.2.1 						 XDrawRectangle(3)