drawmo(3G)drawmo(3G)NAMEdrawmo - selects which GL framebuffer is drawable
FORTRAN 77 SPECIFICATION
subroutine drawmo(mode)
integer*4 mode
PARAMETERS
mode expects the identifier of the framebuffer to which GL drawing
commands are to be directed:
NORMDR, which sets operations for the normal color and z buffer
bitplanes.
OVRDRW, which sets operations for the overlay bitplanes.
UNDRDR, which sets operations for the underlay bitplanes.
PUPDRW, which sets operations for the pop-up bitplanes.
CURSDR, which sets operations for the cursor.
DESCRIPTION
The IRIS physical framebuffer is divided into 4 separate GL framebuffers:
pop-up, overlay, normal, and underlay. drawmo specifies which of these
four buffers is currently being controlled and modified by GL drawing and
mode commands. Because drawmo cannot be set to multiple framebuffers, GL
drawing commands affect only one of the four GL framebuffers at a time.
The way that GL modes interact with drawmo is both complex and
significant to the GL programmer. For example, each framebuffer
maintains its own current color and its own color map, but linewidth is
shared among all framebuffers. In general, modes that determine what is
to be drawn into the framebuffers are shared; modes that control
framebuffer resources are either multiply specified, or specified only
for the normal framebuffer.
A separate version of each of the following modes is maintained by each
GL framebuffer. These modes are modified and read back based on the
current draw mode:
backbu
cmode
color or RGBcol
double
frontb
mapcol (a separate color map per framebuffer)
readso
RGBmod
single
writem or RGBwri
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drawmo(3G)drawmo(3G)
The following modes currently affect only the operation of the normal
framebuffer. They must therefore be modified only while draw mode is
NORMAL. As features are added to the GL, these modes may become
available in other draw modes. When this happens, a separate mode will
be maintained for each draw mode.
acsize
blink
cyclem
multim
onemap
setmap
stenci
stensi
swrite
zbuffe
zdraw
zfunct
zsourc
zwrite
All other modes, including matrices, viewports, graphics and character
positions, lighting, and many primitive rendering options, are shared by
the four GL framebuffers.
Draw mode CURSDR differs from the others. True bitplanes for the cursor
do not exist; there is no current color or writemask in this drawing
mode. However, the cursor does have its own color map, and when in this
mode, mapcol and getmco access it.
SEE ALSO
c, color, cpack, gconfi, getcol, getmco, getwri, mapcol, overla, stenci,
underl, wmpack, writem
NOTES
This routine is available only in immediate mode.
Some GL modes that are shared by all draw modes are not implemented by
the popup, overlay, or underlay framebuffers. For example, the Personal
Iris does not do Gouraud shading in these framebuffers. It is important
for the programmer to explicitly disable modes that are shared, but not
desired, when in draw modes other than NORMAL. Otherwise the code may
function differently on different platforms.
Iris Entry graphics do not support OVRDRW or UNDRDR draw modes. Use
getgde to determine the number of bitplanes available for OVRDRW or
UNDRDR on any machine.
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