Opentk/Source/Bind/Specifications/Docs/glGetUniformBlockIndex.xml
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<refentry id="glGetUniformBlockIndex">
<refmeta>
<refmetainfo>
<copyright>
<year>2010</year>
<holder>Khronos Group</holder>
</copyright>
</refmetainfo>
<refentrytitle>glGetUniformBlockIndex</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>glGetUniformBlockIndex</refname>
<refpurpose>retrieve the index of a named uniform block</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>GLuint <function>glGetUniformBlockIndex</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>GLuint <parameter>program</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>const GLchar *<parameter>uniformBlockName</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>program</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the name of a program containing the uniform block.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>uniformBlockName</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the address an array of characters to containing the name of the uniform block whose index to retrieve.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
<para>
<function>glGetUniformBlockIndex</function> retrieves the index of a uniform block within <parameter>program</parameter>.
</para>
<para>
<parameter>program</parameter> must be the name of a program object for which the command
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glLinkProgram</refentrytitle></citerefentry> must have been called in the past, although it is not required that
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glLinkProgram</refentrytitle></citerefentry> must have succeeded. The link could have failed because the number
of active uniforms exceeded the limit.
</para>
<para>
<parameter>uniformBlockName</parameter> must contain a nul-terminated string specifying the name of the uniform block.
</para>
<para>
<function>glGetUniformBlockIndex</function> returns the uniform block index for the uniform block named <parameter>uniformBlockName</parameter>
of <parameter>program</parameter>. If <parameter>uniformBlockName</parameter> does not identify an active uniform block of <parameter>program</parameter>,
<function>glGetUniformBlockIndex</function> returns the special identifier, <constant>GL_INVALID_INDEX</constant>. Indices of the active uniform
blocks of a program are assigned in consecutive order, beginning with zero.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
<para>
<constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if <parameter>program</parameter> is not the name of a program object for which
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glLinkProgram</refentrytitle></citerefentry> has been called in the past.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>
<para>
<function>glGetUniformBlockIndex</function> is available only if the GL version is 3.1 or greater.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetActiveUniformBlockName</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetActiveUniformBlock</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>glLinkProgram</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
<para>
Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 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.
<ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>