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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  XTextExtents
Message-ID: <9006072353.AA07494@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 7 Jun 90 23:53:12 GMT
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
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> I am having trouble with XTextExtents in X11R3.  I give it a single
> character in order to obtain information necessary to center the
> character but, but the ascent, descent, lbearing, and rbearing
> returned are all zero.  Am I doing something wrong, or is there a bug
> in XTextExtents?

>    XTextExtents(fontinfo,w->m_type,1,&dh,&fa,&fd,&strprops);
> where w->m_type is the character about which I want information.

The second argument should be a pointer to character, not the character
itself.

					der Mouse

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