-// draw a text string
-void DrawQ_String(float x, float y, const char *string, int maxlen, float scalex, float scaley, float red, float green, float blue, float alpha, int flags);
-// draw a text string that supports color tags (colorindex can either be NULL, -1 to make it choose the default color or valid index to start with)
-void DrawQ_ColoredString( float x, float y, const char *text, int maxlen, float scalex, float scaley, float basered, float basegreen, float baseblue, float basealpha, int flags, int *outcolor );
+// draw a filled rectangle (slightly faster than DrawQ_Pic with pic = NULL)
+void DrawQ_Fill(float x, float y, float width, float height, float red, float green, float blue, float alpha, int flags);
+// draw a text string,
+// with optional color tag support,
+// returns final unclipped x coordinate
+// if outcolor is provided the initial color is read from it, and it is updated at the end with the new value at the end of the text (not at the end of the clipped part)
+// the color is tinted by the provided base color
+// if r_textshadow is not zero, an additional instance of the text is drawn first at an offset with an inverted shade of gray (black text produces a white shadow, brightly colored text produces a black shadow)
+float DrawQ_String(float x, float y, const char *text, int maxlen, float scalex, float scaley, float basered, float basegreen, float baseblue, float basealpha, int flags, int *outcolor, qboolean ignorecolorcodes);