X Version 11 (Release 6.1)

XTextWidth(X3xlib)

XTextWidth -- compute text width

Synopsis

   int XTextWidth(font_struct, string, count)
         XFontStruct *font_struct;
         char *string;
         int count;
   
   int XTextWidth16(font_struct, string, count)
         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.

References

XLoadFont(X3xlib), XTextExtents(X3xlib)
Xlib - C Language X Interface