XDrawString(3X11)                    SysV                    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 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
     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
     XDrawImageString(3X11), XDrawText(3X11)
     Xlib - C Language X Interface