xtextwidth(3) - Linux man page

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