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- Specifies up to four color buffers to be drawn into.
- Symbolic constants
- <code class="constant">GL_NONE</code>,
- <code class="constant">GL_FRONT_LEFT</code>,
- <code class="constant">GL_FRONT_RIGHT</code>,
- <code class="constant">GL_BACK_LEFT</code>,
- <code class="constant">GL_BACK_RIGHT</code>,
- <code class="constant">GL_FRONT</code>,
- <code class="constant">GL_BACK</code>,
- <code class="constant">GL_LEFT</code>,
- <code class="constant">GL_RIGHT</code>, and
- <code class="constant">GL_FRONT_AND_BACK</code>
- are accepted.
- The initial value is <code class="constant">GL_FRONT</code> for single-buffered contexts,
- and <code class="constant">GL_BACK</code> for double-buffered contexts.
- </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
- When colors are written to the frame buffer,
- they are written into the color buffers specified by <code class="function">glDrawBuffer</code>.
- The specifications are as follows:
- </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_NONE</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- No color buffers are written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_FRONT_LEFT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- Only the front left color buffer is written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_FRONT_RIGHT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- Only the front right color buffer is written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_BACK_LEFT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- Only the back left color buffer is written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_BACK_RIGHT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- Only the back right color buffer is written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_FRONT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- Only the front left and front right color buffers are written.
- If there is no front right color buffer,
- only the front left color buffer is written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_BACK</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- Only the back left and back right color buffers are written.
- If there is no back right color buffer,
- only the back left color buffer is written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_LEFT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- Only the front left and back left color buffers are written.
- If there is no back left color buffer,
- only the front left color buffer is written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_RIGHT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- Only the front right and back right color buffers are written.
- If there is no back right color buffer,
- only the front right color buffer is written.
- </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_FRONT_AND_BACK</code></span></dt><dd><p>
- All the front and back color buffers
- (front left, front right, back left, back right)
- are written.
- If there are no back color buffers,
- only the front left and front right color buffers are written.
- If there are no right color buffers,
- only the front left and back left color buffers are written.
- If there are no right or back color buffers,
- only the front left color buffer is written.
- </p></dd></dl></div><p>
- If more than one color buffer is selected for drawing,
- then blending or logical operations are computed and applied independently
- for each color buffer and can produce different results in each buffer.
- </p><p>
- Monoscopic contexts include only
- <span class="emphasis"><em>left</em></span>
- buffers, and stereoscopic contexts include both
- <span class="emphasis"><em>left</em></span>
- and
- <span class="emphasis"><em>right</em></span>
- buffers.
- Likewise, single-buffered contexts include only
- <span class="emphasis"><em>front</em></span>
- buffers, and double-buffered contexts include both
- <span class="emphasis"><em>front</em></span>
- and
- <span class="emphasis"><em>back</em></span>
- buffers.
- The context is selected at GL initialization.
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="errors"></a><h2>Errors</h2><p>
- <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_ENUM</code> is generated if <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em> is not an accepted value.
- </p><p>
- <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_OPERATION</code> is generated if none of the buffers indicated
- by <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em> exists.
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="associatedgets"></a><h2>Associated Gets</h2><p>
- <a href="glGet.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGet</span></span></a> with argument <code class="constant">GL_DRAW_BUFFER</code>
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p>
- <a href="glBlendFunc.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glBlendFunc</span></span></a>,
- <a href="glColorMask.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glColorMask</span></span></a>,
- <a href="glDrawBuffers.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDrawBuffers</span></span></a>,
- <a href="glLogicOp.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glLogicOp</span></span></a>,
- <a href="glReadBuffer.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glReadBuffer</span></span></a>
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="Copyright"></a><h2>Copyright</h2><p>
- Copyright <span class="trademark"></span>© 1991-2006
- Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI
- Free Software B License. For details, see
- <a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/" target="_top">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</a>.
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