XMSTRINGDRAW(3)

💖 XmStringDraw — the tea on drawing compound strings 💖

okay bestie, welcome to XmStringDraw(3), a lil library call from the Xm family 🎀 (yes, that's the manual name, it's giving XmStringDraw(library call) energy and we're obsessed).

✨ NAME ✨

XmStringDraw — a compound string function that draws a compound string in an X window 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <Xm/Xm.h>
void XmStringDraw(
Display * d,
Window w,
XmRenderTable rendertable,
XmString string,
GC gc,
Position x,
Position y,
Dimension width,
unsigned char alignment,
unsigned char layout_direction,
XRectangle * clip);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So XmStringDraw draws a compound string in an X Window. Iconic. But listen, there's a plot twist 👀 — if a compound string segment uses a rendition that contains a font set, the graphic context passed to this routine will have the GC font member left in an undefined state. The underlying XmbStringDraw function called by this routine modifies the font ID field of the GC passed into it and does not attempt to restore the font ID to the incoming value. So yeah, it does what it wants, no apology, main character energy 💅

If the compound string segment is not drawn using a font set, the graphic context must contain a valid font member. no cap.

⚠️ Graphic contexts created by XtGetGC are not valid for this routine — instead, use XtAllocateGC to create a graphic context. fr fr, don't skip this one bestie 😭

• d — Specifies the display. 🖥️
• w — Specifies the window. 🪟
• rendertable — Specifies the render table. 📋
• string — Specifies the string. ✨
• gc — Specifies the graphics context to use. 🎨
• x — Specifies a coordinate of the rectangle that will contain the displayed compound string. 📍
• y — Specifies a coordinate of the rectangle that will contain the displayed compound string. 📍 (yes, twin, it's the other coordinate 💖)
• width — Specifies the width of the rectangle that will contain the displayed compound string. 📏
• alignment — Specifies how the string will be aligned within the specified rectangle. It is either XmALIGNMENT_BEGINNING, XmALIGNMENT_CENTER, or XmALIGNMENT_END. 🫶
• layout_direction — Controls the direction in which the segments of the compound string will be laid out. It also determines the meaning of the alignment parameter. 🧭
• clip — Allows the application to restrict the area into which the compound string will be drawn. If the value is NULL, clipping will be determined by the GC. ✂️

✨ RELATED ✨

• XmStringCreate(3) — go read that one too, it's lowkey the prequel 🍓

and that's the whole vibe, bestie!! 🌈💜 this page is literally XmStringDraw(library call) — yeah that's the footer energy, the manual name and the whole thing in one, slay 👑✨

periodt. now go allocate your GC properly. 💅