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/.