1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

glGenLists

3G

glGenLists

generate a contiguous set of empty display lists

# C Specification

                    GLuint glGenLists
                    GLsizei range

## Parameters

`range`

- Specifies the number of contiguous empty display lists to be generated.

## Description

`glGenLists` has one argument, `range`. It returns an integer n such that `range` contiguous empty display lists, named n, n + 1 , ... , n + range - 1 , are created. If `range` is 0, if there is no group of `range` contiguous names available, or if any error is generated, no display lists are generated, and 0 is returned.

## Errors

`GL_INVALID_VALUE` is generated if `range` is negative.

`GL_INVALID_OPERATION` is generated if `glGenLists` is executed between the execution of

glBegin

and the corresponding execution of

glEnd

.

## Associated Gets

glIsList

## See Also

glCallList

,

glCallLists

,

glDeleteLists

,

glNewList

## Copyright

Copyright 1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI Free Software B License. For details, see http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/.