NAME fglSelectBuffer - establish a buffer for selection mode values FORTRAN SPECIFICATION SUBROUTINE fglSelectBuffer( INTEGER*4 size, CHARACTER*8 buffer ) PARAMETERS size Specifies the size of buffer. buffer Returns the selection data. DESCRIPTION fglSelectBuffer has two arguments: buffer is a pointer to an array of unsigned integers, and size indicates the size of the array. buffer returns values from the name stack (see fglInitNames, fglLoadName, fglPushName) when the rendering mode is GL_SELECT (see fglRenderMode). fglSelectBuffer must be issued before selection mode is enabled, and it must not be issued while the rendering mode is GL_SELECT. A programmer can use selection to determine which primitives are drawn into some region of a window. The region is defined by the current modelview and perspective matrices. In selection mode, no pixel fragments are produced from rasterization. Instead, if a primitive or a raster position intersects the clipping volume defined by the viewing frustum and the user-defined clipping planes, this primitive causes a selection hit. (With polygons, no hit occurs if the polygon is culled.) When a change is made to the name stack, or when fglRenderMode is called, a hit record is copied to buffer if any hits have occurred since the last such event (name stack change or fglRenderMode call). The hit record consists of the number of names in the name stack at the time of the event, followed by the minimum and maximum depth values of all vertices that hit since the previous event, followed by the name stack contents, bottom name first. Depth values (which are in the range [0,1]) are multiplied by 2^32 - 1, before being placed in the hit record. An internal index into buffer is reset to 0 whenever selection mode is entered. Each time a hit record is copied into buffer, the index is incremented to point to the cell just past the end of the block of names - that is, to the next available cell. If the hit record is larger than the number of remaining locations in buffer, as much data as can fit is copied, and the overflow flag is set. If the name stack is empty when a hit record is copied, that record consists of 0 followed by the minimum and maximum depth values. To exit selection mode, call fglRenderMode with an argument other than GL_SELECT. Whenever fglRenderMode is called while the render mode is GL_SELECT, it returns the number of hit records copied to buffer, resets the overflow flag and the selection buffer pointer, and initializes the name stack to be empty. If the overflow bit was set when fglRenderMode was called, a negative hit record count is returned. NOTES The contents of buffer is undefined until fglRenderMode is called with an argument other than GL_SELECT. fglBegin/fglEnd primitives and calls to fglRasterPos can result in hits. ERRORS GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if size is negative. GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if fglSelectBuffer is called while the render mode is GL_SELECT, or if fglRenderMode is called with argument GL_SELECT before fglSelectBuffer is called at least once. GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if fglSelectBuffer is executed between the execution of fglBegin and the corresponding execution of fglEnd. ASSOCIATED GETS fglGet with argument GL_NAME_STACK_DEPTH SEE ALSO fglFeedbackBuffer, fglInitNames, fglLoadName, fglPushName, fglRenderMode