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NAME
SYNTAX
ARGUMENTS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO

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