XTextWidth(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to XTextWidth(3) from the XLIB FUNCTIONS manual — this one is all about XTextWidth and XTextWidth16, and their whole job is literally to compute text width ✨

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✨ SYNTAX ✨

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

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

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• count — specifies the character count in the specified string. yes bestie, it's counting characters, not vibes 💅
• font_struct — specifies the font used for the width computation. this is the font main character of the width math 🫶
• string — specifies the character string. the actual text we're measuring, periodt ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

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

like, XTextWidth handles the 8-bit string situation, and XTextWidth16 handles the 2-byte string situation — and both give you the width back. iconic behavior, no cap 🌸

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌸

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

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that's the tea from X Version 11, libX11 1.8.14 — and the footer has no date listed, so I'm not inventing one, bestie 💖 mwah 💋