XDrawImageString(3X11)	       XLIB FUNCTIONS	       XDrawImageString(3X11)



NAME
  XDrawImageString, XDrawImageString16 - draw image text

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

  XDrawImageString16(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
  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 XDrawImage-
  String, 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.

SEE ALSO
  XDrawString(3X11), XDrawText(3X11), XLoadFont(3X11), XTextExtents(3X11)
  Xlib - C Language X Interface