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## 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. 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.

## 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:

    0
    0>=40 .vs 0u
    0<=39 .vs 0p
    [x, y - font-ascent]

The width is:

    0
    0>=40 .vs 0u
    0<=39 .vs 0p
    overall-width

The height is:

    0
    0>=40 .vs 0u
    0<=39 .vs 0p
    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.

## See Also

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

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