XTextWidth

Section: XLIB FUNCTIONS (3)
Updated: libX11 1.3
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NAME

XTextWidth, XTextWidth16 - compute text width  

SYNTAX

int XTextWidth(XFontStruct *font_struct, char *string, int count);
int XTextWidth16(XFontStruct *font_struct, XChar2b *string, int count);
 

ARGUMENTS

count
Specifies the character count in the specified string.
font_struct
Specifies the font used for the width computation.
string
Specifies the character string.
 

DESCRIPTION

The XTextWidth and XTextWidth16 functions return the width of the specified 8-bit or 2-byte character strings.  

SEE ALSO

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