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XmbTextEscapement, XwcTextEscapement,
Xutf8TextEscapement - obtain the escapement of text
- int XmbTextEscapement(XFontSet
font_set, char *string, int
- num_bytes);
- int XwcTextEscapement(XFontSet
font_set, wchar_t *string,
- int num_wchars);
- int Xutf8TextEscapement(XFontSet
font_set, char *string,
- int num_bytes);
Specifies the font set.
Specifies the number of bytes in the string argument.
Specifies the number
of characters in the string argument.
Specifies the character string.
The
XmbTextEscapement, XwcTextEscapement and Xutf8TextEscapement functions
return the escapement in pixels of the specified string as a value, using
the fonts loaded for the specified font set. The escapement is the distance
in pixels in the primary draw direction from the drawing origin to the
origin of the next character to be drawn, assuming that the rendering of
the next character is not dependent on the supplied string.
Regardless of
the character rendering order, the escapement is always positive.
The function
Xutf8TextEscapement is an XFree86 extension introduced in XFree86 4.0.2.
Its presence is indicated by the macro X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING.
XmbTextExtents(3X11)
,
XmbTextPerCharExtents(3X11)
Xlib - C Language X Interface
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