glGenLists.3gl

Name

  glGenLists - generate	a contiguous set of empty display lists

C Specification

  GLuint glGenLists( GLsizei range )

Parameters

  range	 Specifies the number of contiguous empty display lists	to be
	 generated.

Description

  glGenLists has one argument, range.  It returns an integer n such that
  range	contiguous empty display lists,	named n, n+1, ..., n+range -1, are
  created.  If range is	zero, if there is no group of range contiguous names
  available, or	if any error is	generated, no display lists are	generated,
  and zero is returned.

Errors

  GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated	if range is negative.

  GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if glGenLists is executed between the
  execution of glBegin and the corresponding execution of glEnd.

Associated Gets

  glIsList

See Also

  glCallList, glCallLists, glDeleteLists, glNewList

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Last Edited: Mon, May 22, 1995

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