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XPLMDrawMapLabel

X-Plane Developer > SDK Documentation > XPLMMap > XPLMDrawMapLabel

XPLMDrawMapLabel

XPLM_API void       XPLMDrawMapLabel(
                         XPLMMapLayerID       layer,
                         const char *         inText,
                         float                mapX,
                         float                mapY,
                         XPLMMapOrientation   orientation,
                         float                rotationDegrees);

Enables plugin-created map layers to draw text labels using X-Plane’s built-in labeling functionality. Only valid from within an XPLMMapLabelDrawingCallback_f (but you can request an arbitrary number of text labels to be drawn from within your callback).

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