XDrawString16

Syntax

XDrawString16(display, d, gc, x, y, string, length)
      Display *display;
      Drawable d;
      GC gc;
      int x, y;
      XChar2b *string;
      int length;

Arguments

display	Specifies the connection to the X server.
d	Specifies the drawable.
gc	Specifies the GC. .ds Xy , which are relative to the origin of the specified drawable \ and define the origin of the first character
x y	Specify the x and y coordinates\*(Xy.
string	Specifies the character string.
length	Specifies the number of characters in the string argument.

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.

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(), XDrawString(), XLoadFont(), XDrawString16(), XDrawText(), "Drawing Text Characters".

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Christophe Tronche, [email protected]