<div class="refentry" title="glIsBuffer"><a id="glIsBuffer"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>glIsBuffer — determine if a name corresponds to a buffer object</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="C Specification"><h2>C Specification</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">GLboolean <b class="fsfunc">glIsBuffer</b>(</code></td><td>GLuint <var class="pdparam">buffer</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Parameters"><a id="parameters"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">

<em class="parameter"><code>buffer</code></em>

</span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies a value that may be the name of a buffer object.

</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>

<code class="function">glIsBuffer</code>

returns <code class="constant">GL_TRUE</code> if <em class="parameter"><code>buffer</code></em>

is currently the name

of a buffer object. If <em class="parameter"><code>buffer</code></em> is <code class="constant">zero</code>,

or is a non-zero value

that is not currently the name of a buffer object,

<code class="function">glIsBuffer</code> returns <code class="constant">GL_FALSE</code>.

</p><p>A name returned by <a class="citerefentry" href="glGenBuffers"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGenBuffers</span></span></a>,

but not yet associated with a buffer object by calling

<a class="citerefentry" href="glBindBuffer"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glBindBuffer</span></span></a>, is not the

name of a buffer object.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="Errors"><a id="errors"></a><h2>Errors</h2><p>

None.

</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="See Also"><a id="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p>

<a class="citerefentry" href="glBindBuffer"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glBindBuffer</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glBufferData"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glBufferData</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glBufferSubData"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glBufferSubData</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDeleteBuffers"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDeleteBuffers</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glGenBuffers"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGenBuffers</span></span></a>

</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="Copyright"><a id="copyright"></a><h2>Copyright</h2><p>

Copyright © 2003-2004

Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI

Free Software B License. For details, see

<a class="ulink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171022161616/http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/" target="_top">https://web.archive.org/web/20171022161616/http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</a>.

</p></div></div>