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<refentry id="glCreateShader">
    <refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>glCreateShader</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
	<refname>glCreateShader</refname>
	<refpurpose>create a shader object</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
	<funcsynopsis>
	    <funcprototype>
		<funcdef>GLuint <function>glCreateShader</function></funcdef>
		<paramdef>GLenum <parameter>shaderType</parameter></paramdef>
	    </funcprototype>
	</funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
	<variablelist>
	    <varlistentry>
		<term><parameter>shaderType</parameter></term>
		<listitem>
		    <para>Specifies the type of shader to be created.
		    Must be either <constant>GL_VERTEX_SHADER</constant>
		    or <constant>GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER</constant>.</para>
		</listitem>
	    </varlistentry>
	</variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
	<para><function>glCreateShader</function> creates an empty
	shader object and returns a non-zero value by which it can be
	referenced. A shader object is used to maintain the source code
	strings that define a shader. <parameter>shaderType</parameter>
	indicates the type of shader to be created. Two types of shaders
	are supported. A shader of type
	<constant>GL_VERTEX_SHADER</constant> is a shader that is
	intended to run on the programmable vertex processor. A shader of
	type <constant>GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER</constant> is a shader that is
	intended to run on the programmable fragment processor.</para>

	<para>When created, a shader object's
	<constant>GL_SHADER_TYPE</constant> parameter is set to either
	<constant>GL_VERTEX_SHADER</constant> or
	<constant>GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER</constant>, depending on the value
	of <parameter>shaderType</parameter>.</para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>
	<para>Like texture objects, the name space for
	shader objects may be shared across a set of contexts, as long
	as the server sides of the contexts share the same address
	space. If the name space is shared across contexts, any attached
	objects and the data associated with those attached objects are
	shared as well.</para>

	<para>Applications are responsible for providing the
	synchronization across API calls when objects are accessed from
	different execution threads.</para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
	<para>This function returns 0 if an error occurs creating the
	shader object.</para>

	<para><constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if
	<parameter>shaderType</parameter> is not an accepted value.</para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="associatedgets"><title>Associated Gets</title>
	<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetShaderiv</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
	with a valid shader object and the parameter to be queried</para>

	<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetShaderInfoLog</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
	with a valid shader object</para>

	<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetShaderSource</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
	with a valid shader object</para>

	<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>glIsShader</refentrytitle></citerefentry></para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
	<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>glAttachShader</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glCompileShader</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDeleteShader</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDetachShader</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glShaderSource</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glShaderBinary</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
	</para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2003-2005 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. 
            This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in 
            the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
            <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>
