glGenLists  1B73_MJ

[New - Windows 95, OEM Service Release 2]

The glGenLists function generates a contiguous set of empty display lists.

GLuint glGenLists(

    GLsizei range

 

   );

 

 

Parameters

range

The number of contiguous empty display lists to be generated.

 

Remarks

The glGenLists function 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, then no display lists are generated and zero is returned.

The following function retrieves information related to glGenLists:

glIsList1_9Z_94

 

Error Codes

The following are the error codes generated and their conditions.

Error Code

Condition

GL_INVALID_VALUE

range is negative.

GL_INVALID_OPERATION

glGenLists was called between a call to glBegin and the corresponding call to glEnd.

 

See Also

glBegin, glCallList, glCallLists, glDeleteLists, glEnd, glIsList, glNewList