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4 <refentry id="glGetQueryiv">
5 <refmeta>
6 <refmetainfo>
7 <copyright>
8 <year>2005</year>
9 <holder>Sams Publishing</holder>
10 </copyright>
11 </refmetainfo>
12 <refentrytitle>glGetQueryiv</refentrytitle>
13 <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
14 </refmeta>
15 <refnamediv>
16 <refname>glGetQueryiv</refname>
17 <refpurpose>return parameters of a query object target</refpurpose>
18 </refnamediv>
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
20 <funcsynopsis>
21 <funcprototype>
22 <funcdef>void <function>glGetQueryiv</function></funcdef>
23 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>target</parameter></paramdef>
24 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>pname</parameter></paramdef>
25 <paramdef>GLint * <parameter>params</parameter></paramdef>
26 </funcprototype>
27 </funcsynopsis>
28 </refsynopsisdiv>
29 <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
30 <variablelist>
31 <varlistentry>
32 <term><parameter>target</parameter></term>
33 <listitem>
34 <para>
35 Specifies a query object target.
36 Must be <constant>GL_SAMPLES_PASSED</constant>, <constant>GL_ANY_SAMPLES_PASSED</constant>,
37 <constant>GL_PRIMITIVES_GENERATED</constant>, <constant>GL_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_PRIMITIVES_WRITTEN</constant>,
38 <constant>GL_TIME_ELAPSED</constant>, or <constant>GL_TIMESTAMP</constant>.
39 </para>
40 </listitem>
41 </varlistentry>
42 <varlistentry>
43 <term><parameter>pname</parameter></term>
44 <listitem>
45 <para>
46 Specifies the symbolic name of a query object target parameter.
47 Accepted values are <constant>GL_CURRENT_QUERY</constant> or <constant>GL_QUERY_COUNTER_BITS</constant>.
48 </para>
49 </listitem>
50 </varlistentry>
51 <varlistentry>
52 <term><parameter>params</parameter></term>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>
55 Returns the requested data.
56 </para>
57 </listitem>
58 </varlistentry>
59 </variablelist>
60 </refsect1>
61 <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
62 <para>
63 <function>glGetQueryiv</function> returns in <parameter>params</parameter> a selected parameter of the query object target
64 specified by <parameter>target</parameter>.
65 </para>
66 <para>
67 <parameter>pname</parameter> names a specific query object target parameter. When <parameter>pname</parameter> is
68 <constant>GL_CURRENT_QUERY</constant>, the name of the currently active query for <parameter>target</parameter>,
69 or zero if no query is active, will be placed in <parameter>params</parameter>.
70 If <parameter>pname</parameter> is <constant>GL_QUERY_COUNTER_BITS</constant>, the implementation-dependent number
71 of bits used to hold the result of queries for <parameter>target</parameter> is returned in <parameter>params</parameter>.
72 </para>
73 </refsect1>
74 <refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>
75 <para>
76 If an error is generated,
77 no change is made to the contents of <parameter>params</parameter>.
78 </para>
79 </refsect1>
80 <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
81 <para>
82 <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>target</parameter> or <parameter>pname</parameter> is not an
83 accepted value.
84 </para>
85 </refsect1>
86 <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
87 <para>
88 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetQueryObject</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
89 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glIsQuery</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
90 </para>
91 </refsect1>
92 <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
93 <para>
94 Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2005 Addison-Wesley.
95 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
96 the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
97 <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.
98 </para>
99 </refsect1>
100 </refentry>