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XDrawText(3) XLIB FUNCTIONS XDrawText(3) NAME XDrawText, XDrawText16, XTextItem, XTextItem16 - draw polytext text and text drawing structures SYNTAX int XDrawText(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int y, XTex- tItem *items, int nitems); int XDrawText16(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int y, XTextItem16 *items, int nitems); ARGUMENTS d Specifies the drawable. display Specifies the connection to the X server. gc Specifies the GC. items Specifies an array of text items. nitems Specifies the number of text items in the array. 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 The XDrawText16 function is similar to XDrawText except that it uses 2-byte or 16-bit characters. Both functions allow complex spacing and font shifts between counted strings. Each text item is processed in turn. A font member other than None in an item causes the font to be stored in the GC and used for subsequent text. A text element delta specifies an additional change in the posi- tion along the x axis before the string is drawn. The delta is always added to the character origin and is not dependent on any characteris- tics of the font. Each character image, as defined by the font in the GC, is treated as an additional mask for a fill operation on the draw- able. The drawable is modified only where the font character has a bit set to 1. If a text item generates a BadFont error, the previous text items may have been drawn. For fonts defined with linear indexing rather than 2-byte matrix index- ing, each XChar2b structure is interpreted as a 16-bit number with byte1 as the most significant byte. 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. XDrawText and XDrawText16 can generate BadDrawable, BadFont, BadGC, and BadMatch errors. STRUCTURES The XTextItem and XTextItem16 structures contain: typedef struct { char *chars; /* pointer to string */ int nchars; /* number of characters */ int delta; /* delta between strings */ Font font; /* Font to print it in, None don't change */ } XTextItem; typedef struct { XChar2b *chars; /* pointer to two-byte characters */ int nchars; /* number of characters */ int delta; /* delta between strings */ Font font; /* font to print it in, None don't change */ } XTextItem16; If the font member is not None, the font is changed before printing and also is stored in the GC. If an error was generated during text draw- ing, the previous items may have been drawn. The baseline of the char- acters are drawn starting at the x and y coordinates that you pass in the text drawing functions. For example, consider the background rectangle drawn by XDrawIm- ageString. If you want the upper-left corner of the background rectan- gle to be at pixel coordinate (x,y), pass the (x,y + ascent) as the baseline origin coordinates to the text functions. The ascent is the font ascent, as given in the XFontStruct structure. If you want the lower-left corner of the background rectangle to be at pixel coordinate (x,y), pass the (x,y - descent + 1) as the baseline origin coordinates to the text functions. The descent is the font descent, as given in the XFontStruct structure. DIAGNOSTICS BadDrawable A value for a Drawable argument does not name a defined Win- dow or Pixmap. BadFont A value for a Font or GContext argument does not name a de- fined Font. BadGC A value for a GContext argument does not name a defined GCon- text. BadMatch An InputOnly window is used as a Drawable. SEE ALSO XDrawImageString(3), XDrawString(3), XLoadFont(3) Xlib - C Language X Interface X Version 11 libX11 1.8.12 XDrawText(3)
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