| Reference Manual - 1.4.13

IDirectFBSurface | DrawString

#### Draw a string at the specified position with the given color following the specified flags.

DFBResult DrawString (
| IDirectFBSurface |  | * | thiz,
| const char |  | * | text,
| int |  |  | bytes,
| int |  |  | x,
| int |  |  | y,
| DFBSurfaceTextFlags |  |  | flags
);

Bytes specifies the number of bytes to take from the string or -1 for the complete NULL-terminated string. You need to set a font using the SetFont() method before calling this function.

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