xcb_list_fonts

Section: XCB Requests (3)
Updated: libxcb 1.12
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NAME

xcb_list_fonts - get matching font names  

SYNOPSIS

#include <xcb/xproto.h>  

Request function

xcb_list_fonts_cookie_t xcb_list_fonts(xcb_connection_t *conn, uint16_t max_names, uint16_t pattern_len, const char *pattern);

 

Reply datastructure

typedef struct xcb_list_fonts_reply_t {
    uint8_t  response_type;
    uint8_t  pad0;
    uint16_t sequence;
    uint32_t length;
    uint16_t names_len;
    uint8_t  pad1[22];
} xcb_list_fonts_reply_t;

 

Reply function

xcb_list_fonts_reply_t *xcb_list_fonts_reply(xcb_connection_t *conn, xcb_list_fonts_cookie_t cookie, xcb_generic_error_t **e);

 

Reply accessors

int xcb_list_fonts_names_length(const xcb_list_fonts_reply_t *reply);

xcb_str_iterator_t xcb_list_fonts_names_iterator(const xcb_list_fonts_reply_t *reply);

 

REQUEST ARGUMENTS

conn

The XCB connection to X11.

max_names

The maximum number of fonts to be returned.

pattern_len

The length (in bytes) of pattern.

pattern

A font pattern, for example "-misc-fixed-*".

The asterisk (*) is a wildcard for any number of characters. The question mark (?) is a wildcard for a single character. Use of uppercase or lowercase does not matter.

 

REPLY FIELDS

response_type

The type of this reply, in this case XCB_LIST_FONTS. This field is also present in the xcb_generic_reply_t and can be used to tell replies apart from each other.

sequence

The sequence number of the last request processed by the X11 server.

length

The length of the reply, in words (a word is 4 bytes).

names_len

The number of font names.

 

DESCRIPTION

Gets a list of available font names which match the given pattern.  

RETURN VALUE

Returns an xcb_list_fonts_cookie_t. Errors have to be handled when calling the reply function xcb_list_fonts_reply.

If you want to handle errors in the event loop instead, use xcb_list_fonts_unchecked. See xcb-requests(3) for details.  

ERRORS

This request does never generate any errors.  

SEE ALSO

xcb-requests(3)  

AUTHOR

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

Request function

Reply datastructure

Reply function

Reply accessors

REQUEST ARGUMENTS

REPLY FIELDS

DESCRIPTION

RETURN VALUE

ERRORS

SEE ALSO

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