'''OpenGL extension SGIX.pbuffer This module customises the behaviour of the OpenGL.raw.GLX.SGIX.pbuffer to provide a more Python-friendly API Overview (from the spec) This extension defines pixel buffers (GLXPbuffers, or pbuffer for short). GLXPbuffers are additional non-visible rendering buffers for an OpenGL renderer. GLXPbuffers are equivalent to GLXPixmaps with the following exceptions: 1. There is no associated X pixmap. Also, since a GLXPbuffer is a GLX resource, it may not be possible to render to it using X or an X extension other than GLX. 2. The format of the color buffers and the type and size of any associated ancillary buffers for a GLXPbuffer can only be described with a GLXFBConfig -- an X Visual cannot be used. 3. It is possible to create a GLXPbuffer whose contents may be asynchronously lost at any time. 4. GLXPbuffers can be rendered to using either direct or indirect rendering contexts. 5. The allocation of a GLXPbuffer can fail if there are insufficient resources (i.e., all the pbuffer memory has been allocated and the implementation does not virtualize pbuffer memory.) The intent of the pbuffer semantics is to enable implementations to allocate pbuffers in non-visible frame buffer memory. These pbuffers are intended to be "static" resources, in that a program will typically allocate them only once, rather than as a part of its rendering loop. (But they should be deallocated when the program is no longer using them -- for example, if the program is iconified.) The frame buffer resources that are associated with a pbuffer are also static, and are deallocated only when the pbuffer is destroyed, or, in the case of a "unpreserved" pbuffer, as a result of X server activity that changes its frame buffer requirements. The official definition of this extension is available here: http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/SGIX/pbuffer.txt ''' from OpenGL import platform, constant, arrays from OpenGL import extensions, wrapper import ctypes from OpenGL.raw.GLX import _types, _glgets from OpenGL.raw.GLX.SGIX.pbuffer import * from OpenGL.raw.GLX.SGIX.pbuffer import _EXTENSION_NAME def glInitPbufferSGIX(): '''Return boolean indicating whether this extension is available''' from OpenGL import extensions return extensions.hasGLExtension( _EXTENSION_NAME ) ### END AUTOGENERATED SECTION