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    <info>
        <copyright>
            <year>1991-2006</year>
            <holder>Silicon Graphics, Inc.</holder>
        </copyright>
        <copyright>
            <year>2010-2014</year>
            <holder>Khronos Group</holder>
        </copyright>
    </info>
    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>glDrawArrays</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>glDrawArrays</refname>
        <refpurpose>render primitives from array data</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glDrawArrays</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>mode</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLint <parameter>first</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLsizei <parameter>count</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 xml:id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>mode</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies what kind of primitives to render.
                    Symbolic constants
                    <constant>GL_POINTS</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_LINE_STRIP</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_LINE_LOOP</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_LINES</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLE_FAN</constant> and
                    <constant>GL_TRIANGLES</constant>
                    are accepted.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>first</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the starting index in the enabled arrays.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>count</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the number of indices to be rendered.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>glDrawArrays</function> specifies multiple geometric primitives
            with very few subroutine calls. It is possible to prespecify
            separate arrays of attributes and use them to
            construct a sequence of primitives with a single
            call to <function>glDrawArrays</function>.
        </para>
        <para>
            When <function>glDrawArrays</function> is called, it uses <parameter>count</parameter> sequential elements from each
            enabled array to construct a sequence of geometric primitives,
            beginning with element <parameter>first</parameter>. <parameter>mode</parameter> specifies what kind of
            primitives are constructed and how the array elements
            construct those primitives.
        </para>
         <para>
                        To enable and disable a generic vertex attribute array, call
                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glEnableVertexAttribArray</refentrytitle></citerefentry> and
                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDisableVertexAttribArray</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.
        </para>
        <para>
                        If an array corresponding to a generic attribute required by a vertex shader
                        is not enabled, then the corresponding element is taken from the current generic
                        attribute state.
        </para>
   </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>mode</parameter> is not an accepted value.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if <parameter>count</parameter> is negative.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if a non-zero buffer object name is bound to an
            enabled array and the buffer object's data store is currently mapped.
        </para>
       <para>
                        <constant>GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION</constant> is generated if the currently bound framebuffer is not
                        framebuffer complete (i.e. the return value from
                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glCheckFramebufferStatus</refentrytitle></citerefentry> is not <constant>GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE</constant>).
        </para>
        <para>
                        <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if recording the vertices of a primitive to the buffer objects being
                        used for transform feedback purposes would result in either exceeding the limits of any buffer object’s size,
                        or in exceeding the end position <parameter>offset</parameter> + <parameter>size</parameter> - 1, as set
                        by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBindBufferRange</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.
                </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="versions">
        <title>API Version Support</title>
        <informaltable>
            <tgroup cols="3" align="left">
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                    <row>
                        <entry>glDrawArrays</entry>
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                </tbody>
            </tgroup>
        </informaltable>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glCheckFramebufferStatus</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDisableVertexAttribArray</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawArraysInstanced</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElements</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawElementsInstanced</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDrawRangeElements</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glEnableVertexAttribArray</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"/> 1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"/> 2010-2014 Khronos Group.
            This document is licensed under the SGI Free Software B License.
            For details, see
            <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</link>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>
