2005 Sams Publishing

glIsBuffer

3G

glIsBuffer

determine if a name corresponds to a buffer object

# C Specification

                    GLboolean glIsBuffer
                    GLuint buffer

## Parameters

`buffer`

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

## Description

`glIsBuffer` returns `GL_TRUE` if `buffer` is currently the name of a buffer object. If `buffer` is zero, or is a non-zero value that is not currently the name of a buffer object, or if an error occurs, `glIsBuffer` returns `GL_FALSE`.

A name returned by

glGenBuffers

, but not yet associated with a buffer object by calling

glBindBuffer

, is not the name of a buffer object.

## See Also

glBindBuffer

,

glDeleteBuffers

,

glGenBuffers

,

glGet

## Copyright

Copyright 2005 Addison-Wesley. 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/.