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4 <refentry id="glIsBuffer">
5 <refmeta>
6 <refmetainfo>
7 <copyright>
8 <year>2005</year>
9 <holder>Sams Publishing</holder>
10 </copyright>
11 </refmetainfo>
12 <refentrytitle>glIsBuffer</refentrytitle>
13 <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
14 </refmeta>
15 <refnamediv>
16 <refname>glIsBuffer</refname>
17 <refpurpose>determine if a name corresponds to a buffer object</refpurpose>
18 </refnamediv>
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
20 <funcsynopsis>
21 <funcprototype>
22 <funcdef>GLboolean <function>glIsBuffer</function></funcdef>
23 <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>buffer</parameter></paramdef>
24 </funcprototype>
25 </funcsynopsis>
26 </refsynopsisdiv>
27 <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
28 <variablelist>
29 <varlistentry>
30 <term><parameter>buffer</parameter></term>
31 <listitem>
32 <para>
33 Specifies a value that may be the name of a buffer object.
34 </para>
35 </listitem>
36 </varlistentry>
37 </variablelist>
38 </refsect1>
39 <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
40 <para>
41 <function>glIsBuffer</function> returns <constant>GL_TRUE</constant> if <parameter>buffer</parameter> is currently the name of a buffer object.
42 If <parameter>buffer</parameter> is zero, or is a non-zero value that is not currently the
43 name of a buffer object, or if an error occurs, <function>glIsBuffer</function> returns <constant>GL_FALSE</constant>.
44 </para>
45 <para>
46 A name returned by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGenBuffers</refentrytitle></citerefentry>, but not yet associated with a buffer object
47 by calling <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBindBuffer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>, is not the name of a buffer object.
48 </para>
49 </refsect1>
50 <refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>
51 <para>
52 <function>glIsBuffer</function> is available only if the GL version is 1.5 or greater.
53 </para>
54 </refsect1>
55 <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
56 <para>
57 <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if <function>glIsBuffer</function> is executed
58 between the execution of <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBegin</refentrytitle></citerefentry> and the corresponding
59 execution of <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glEnd</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.
60 </para>
61 </refsect1>
62 <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
63 <para>
64 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBindBuffer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
65 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDeleteBuffers</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
66 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGenBuffers</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
67 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGet</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
68 </para>
69 </refsect1>
70 <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
71 <para>
72 Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2005 Addison-Wesley.
73 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
74 the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
75 <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.
76 </para>
77 </refsect1>
78 </refentry>