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XDrawString(3)			 XLIB FUNCTIONS 		  XDrawString(3)

NAME
     XDrawString, XDrawString16 - draw text characters

SYNTAX
     int  XDrawString(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int y, _Xconst
	    char *string, int length);

     int XDrawString16(Display *display, Drawable  d,  GC  gc,	int  x,  int  y,
	    _Xconst 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 mod-
     ified  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(3), XDrawText(3), XLoadFont(3)
     Xlib - C Language X Interface

X Version 11			  libX11 1.8.13 		  XDrawString(3)

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