eglQueryString

Name

eglQueryString — return a string describing an EGL display connection

C Specification

`char const * eglQueryString(`	EGLDisplay `display`,
	EGLint `name)`;

Parameters

display: Specifies the EGL display connection.
name: Specifies a symbolic constant, one of EGL_CLIENT_APIS, EGL_VENDOR, EGL_VERSION, or EGL_EXTENSIONS.

Description

eglQueryString returns a pointer to a static string describing an EGL display connection. name can be one of the following:

EGL_CLIENT_APIS

Returns a string describing which client rendering APIs are supported. The string contains a space-separate list of API names. The list must include at least one of OpenGL, OpenGL_ES, or OpenVG. These strings correspond respectively to values EGL_OPENGL_API, EGL_OPENGL_ES_API, and EGL_OPENVG_API of the eglBindAPI, api argument.

EGL_VENDOR

Returns the company responsible for this EGL implementation. This name does not change from release to release.

EGL_VERSION

Returns a version or release number. The EGL_VERSION string is laid out as follows:

major_version.minor_version space vendor_specific_info

EGL_EXTENSIONS

Returns a space separated list of supported extensions to EGL.

Notes

EGL_CLIENT_APIS is supported only if the EGL version is 1.2 or greater.

Errors

NULL is returned on failure.

EGL_BAD_DISPLAY is generated if display is not an EGL display connection.

EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED is generated if display has not been initialized.

EGL_BAD_PARAMETER is generated if name is not an accepted value.

Copyright

Copyright © 2003-2010 Khronos Group. 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/.