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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\r
2<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook MathML Module V1.1b1//EN"\r
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/mathml/1.1CR1/dbmathml.dtd">\r
4<refentry id="glGetObjectLabel">\r
5 <refmeta>\r
6 <refmetainfo>\r
7 <copyright>\r
8 <year>2012</year>\r
9 <holder>Khronos Group</holder>\r
10 </copyright>\r
11 </refmetainfo>\r
12 <refentrytitle>glGetObjectLabel</refentrytitle>\r
13 <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>\r
14 </refmeta>\r
15 <refnamediv>\r
16 <refname>glGetObjectLabel</refname>\r
17 <refpurpose>retrieve the label of a named object identified within a namespace</refpurpose>\r
18 </refnamediv>\r
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>\r
20 <funcsynopsis>\r
21 <funcprototype>\r
22 <funcdef>void <function>glGetObjectLabel</function></funcdef>\r
23 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>identifier</parameter></paramdef>\r
24 <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>name</parameter></paramdef>\r
25 <paramdef>GLsizei <parameter>bifSize</parameter></paramdef>\r
26 <paramdef>GLsizei * <parameter>length</parameter></paramdef>\r
27 <paramdef>char * <parameter>label</parameter></paramdef>\r
28 </funcprototype>\r
29 </funcsynopsis>\r
30 </refsynopsisdiv>\r
31 <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>\r
32 <variablelist>\r
33 <varlistentry>\r
34 <term><parameter>identifier</parameter></term>\r
35 <listitem>\r
36 <para>\r
37 The namespace from which the name of the object is allocated.\r
38 </para>\r
39 </listitem>\r
40 </varlistentry>\r
41 <varlistentry>\r
42 <term><parameter>name</parameter></term>\r
43 <listitem>\r
44 <para>\r
45 The name of the object whose label to retrieve.\r
46 </para>\r
47 </listitem>\r
48 </varlistentry>\r
49 <varlistentry>\r
50 <term><parameter>bufSize</parameter></term>\r
51 <listitem>\r
52 <para>\r
53 The length of the buffer whose address is in <parameter>label</parameter>.\r
54 </para>\r
55 </listitem>\r
56 </varlistentry>\r
57 <varlistentry>\r
58 <term><parameter>length</parameter></term>\r
59 <listitem>\r
60 <para>\r
61 The address of a variable to receive the length of the object label.\r
62 </para>\r
63 </listitem>\r
64 </varlistentry>\r
65 <varlistentry>\r
66 <term><parameter>label</parameter></term>\r
67 <listitem>\r
68 <para>\r
69 The address of a string that will receive the object label.\r
70 </para>\r
71 </listitem>\r
72 </varlistentry>\r
73 </variablelist>\r
74 </refsect1>\r
75 <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>\r
76 <para>\r
77 <function>glGetObjectLabel</function> retrieves the label of the object identified by\r
78 <parameter>name</parameter> within the namespace given by <parameter>identifier</parameter>.\r
79 <parameter>identifier</parameter> must be one of <constant>GL_BUFFER</constant>, <constant>GL_SHADER</constant>,\r
80 <constant>GL_PROGRAM</constant>, <constant>GL_VERTEX_ARRAY</constant>, <constant>GL_QUERY</constant>,\r
81 <constant>GL_PROGRAM_PIPELINE</constant>, <constant>GL_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK</constant>, <constant>GL_SAMPLER</constant>,\r
82 <constant>GL_TEXTURE</constant>, <constant>GL_RENDERBUFFER</constant>, <constant>GL_FRAMEBUFFER</constant>,\r
83 to indicate the namespace containing the names of buffers, shaders, programs, vertex array objects, query objects,\r
84 program pipelines, transform feedback objects, samplers, textures, renderbuffers and frame\r
85 buffers, respectively.\r
86 </para>\r
87 <para>\r
88 <parameter>label</parameter> is the address of a string that will be used to store the object label.\r
89 <parameter>bufSize</parameter> specifies the number of characters in the array identified by <parameter>label</parameter>.\r
90 <parameter>length</parameter> contains the address of a variable which will receive the the number of characters in the object label.\r
91 If <parameter>length</parameter> is NULL, then it is ignored and no data is written. Likewise, if <parameter>label</parameter>\r
92 is NULL, or if <parameter>bufSize</parameter> is zero then no data is written to <parameter>label</parameter>.\r
93 </para>\r
94 </refsect1>\r
95 <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>\r
96 <para>\r
97 <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>identifier</parameter>\r
98 is not one of the accepted object types.\r
99 </para>\r
100 <para>\r
101 <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if <parameter>name</parameter>\r
102 is not the name of an existing object of the type specified by <parameter>identifier</parameter>.\r
103 </para>\r
104 <para>\r
105 <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>bufSize</parameter> is\r
106 zero.\r
107 </para>\r
108 <para>\r
109 If not NULL, <parameter>length</parameter> and <parameter>label</parameter> should be addresses\r
110 to which the client has write access, otherwise undefined behavior, including process termination\r
111 may occur.\r
112 </para>\r
113 </refsect1>\r
114 <refsect1 id="associatedgets"><title>Associated Gets</title>\r
115 <para>\r
116 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGet</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with argument <constant>GL_MAX_LABEL_LENGTH</constant>.\r
117 </para>\r
118 </refsect1>\r
119 <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>\r
120 <para>\r
121 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glPushDebugGroup</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
122 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glPopDebugGroup</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
123 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glObjectLabel</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
124 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetObjectPtrLabel</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.\r
125 </para>\r
126 </refsect1>\r
127 <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>\r
128 <para>\r
129 Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2012 Khronos Group. \r
130 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in \r
131 the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.\r
132 <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.\r
133 </para>\r
134 </refsect1>\r
135</refentry>\r