2010
Khronos Group
glGetActiveUniformBlockName
3G
glGetActiveUniformBlockName
retrieve the name of an active uniform block
C Specification
void glGetActiveUniformBlockName
GLuint program
GLuint uniformBlockIndex
GLsizei bufSize
GLsizei *length
GLchar *uniformBlockName
Parameters
program
Specifies the name of a program containing the uniform block.
uniformBlockIndex
Specifies the index of the uniform block within program.
bufSize
Specifies the size of the buffer addressed by uniformBlockName.
length
Specifies the address of a variable to receive the number of characters that were written to uniformBlockName.
uniformBlockName
Specifies the address an array of characters to receive the name of the uniform block at uniformBlockIndex.
Description
glGetActiveUniformBlockName retrieves the name of the active uniform block at uniformBlockIndex
within program.
program must be the name of a program object for which the command
glLinkProgram must have been called in the past, although it is not required that
glLinkProgram must have succeeded. The link could have failed because the number
of active uniforms exceeded the limit.
uniformBlockIndex is an active uniform block index of program, and must be less than the value
of GL_ACTIVE_UNIFORM_BLOCKS.
Upon success, the name of the uniform block identified by unifomBlockIndex is returned into
uniformBlockName. The name is nul-terminated. The actual number of characters written into uniformBlockName,
excluding the nul terminator, is returned in length. If length is NULL
, no length is returned.
bufSize contains the maximum number of characters (including the nul terminator) that will be written into
uniformBlockName.
If an error occurs, nothing will be written to uniformBlockName or length.
Errors
GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if program is not the name of a program object for which
glLinkProgram has been called in the past.
GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if uniformBlockIndex is greater than or equal to the value
of GL_ACTIVE_UNIFORM_BLOCKS or is not the index of an active uniform block in program.
Notes
glGetActiveUniformBlockName is available only if the GL version is 3.1 or greater.
See Also
glGetActiveUniformBlock,
glGetUniformBlockIndex
Copyright
Copyright 2010 Khronos Group.
This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
http://opencontent.org/openpub/.