XDrawImageString16(3x)

XDrawImageString163x

Draw image text

Part of XDrawImageString(3x).

Usage

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

int XDrawImageString16(Display *display, Drawable d, GC gc, int x, int 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. and define the origin of the first character

x
y

Specify the x and y coordinates, which are relative to the origin of the specified drawable.

Overview

The XDrawImageString16 function is similar to XDrawImageString except that it uses 2-byte or 16-bit characters. Both functions also use both the foreground and background pixels of the GC in the destination.

The effect is first to fill a destination rectangle with the background pixel defined in the GC and then to paint the text with the foreground pixel. The upper-left corner of the filled rectangle is at:

[x, y - font-ascent]

The width is:

overall-width

The height is:

font-ascent + font-descent

The overall-width, font-ascent, and font-descent are as would be returned by XQueryTextExtents using gc and string. The function and fill-style defined in the GC are ignored for these functions. The effective function is GXcopy, and the effective fill-style is FillSolid.

For fonts defined with 2-byte matrix indexing and used with XDrawImageString, each byte is used as a byte2 with a byte1 of zero.

Both functions use these GC components: plane-mask, foreground, background, font, subwindow-mode, clip-x-origin, clip-y-origin, and clip-mask.

XDrawImageString and XDrawImageString16 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.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3–2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1

From libx11-dev 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge7 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.