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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mathml.xsl"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:pref="http://www.w3.org/2002/Math/preference" pref:renderer="mathplayer-dl"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="opengl-man.css" /><title>glHint - OpenGL 4 Reference Pages</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1" /></head><body><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="glHint"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>glHint — specify implementation-specific hints</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>C Specification</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><p><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">glHint</b>(</code>GLenum <var class="pdparam">target</var>, GLenum <var class="pdparam">mode</var><code>)</code>;</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="parameters"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>target</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
                    Specifies a symbolic constant indicating the behavior to be controlled.
                    <code class="constant">GL_LINE_SMOOTH_HINT</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH_HINT</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_TEXTURE_COMPRESSION_HINT</code>, and
                    <code class="constant">GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER_DERIVATIVE_HINT</code>
                    are accepted.
                </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
                    Specifies a symbolic constant indicating the desired behavior.
                    <code class="constant">GL_FASTEST</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_NICEST</code>, and
                    <code class="constant">GL_DONT_CARE</code> are accepted.
                </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
            Certain aspects of GL behavior,
            when there is room for interpretation,
            can be controlled with hints.
            A hint is specified with two arguments.
            <em class="parameter"><code>target</code></em> is a symbolic
            constant indicating the behavior to be controlled,
            and <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em> is another symbolic constant indicating the desired
            behavior. The initial value for each <em class="parameter"><code>target</code></em> is <code class="constant">GL_DONT_CARE</code>.
            <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em> can be one of the following:
        </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_FASTEST</code></span></dt><dd><p>
                    </p><p>
                        The most efficient option should be chosen.
                    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_NICEST</code></span></dt><dd><p>
                    </p><p>
                        The most correct,
                        or highest quality,
                        option should be chosen.
                    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_DONT_CARE</code></span></dt><dd><p>
                    </p><p>
                        No preference.
                    </p></dd></dl></div><p>
            Though the implementation aspects that can be hinted are well defined,
            the interpretation of the hints depends on the implementation.
            The hint aspects that can be specified with <em class="parameter"><code>target</code></em>,
            along with suggested semantics,
            are as follows:
        </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER_DERIVATIVE_HINT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
                    </p><p>
                        Indicates the accuracy of the derivative calculation for the GL shading language fragment processing built-in functions:
                        <code class="constant">dFdx</code>, <code class="constant">dFdy</code>, and <code class="constant">fwidth</code>.
                    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_LINE_SMOOTH_HINT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
                    </p><p>
                        Indicates the sampling quality of antialiased lines.
                        If a larger filter function is applied, hinting <code class="constant">GL_NICEST</code> can
                        result in more pixel fragments being generated during rasterization.
                    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH_HINT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
                    </p><p>
                        Indicates the sampling quality of antialiased polygons.
                        Hinting <code class="constant">GL_NICEST</code> can result in more pixel fragments being generated
                        during rasterization,
                        if a larger filter function is applied.
                    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><code class="constant">GL_TEXTURE_COMPRESSION_HINT</code></span></dt><dd><p>
                    </p><p>
                        Indicates the quality and performance of the compressing texture images.
                        Hinting <code class="constant">GL_FASTEST</code> indicates that texture images should be compressed
                        as quickly as possible, while <code class="constant">GL_NICEST</code> indicates that texture images
                        should be compressed with as little image quality loss as possible.
                        <code class="constant">GL_NICEST</code> should be selected if the texture is to be retrieved by
                        <a href="glGetCompressedTexImage.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGetCompressedTexImage</span></span></a> for reuse.
                    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="notes"></a><h2>Notes</h2><p>
            The interpretation of hints depends on the implementation.
            Some implementations ignore <code class="function">glHint</code> settings.
        </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="errors"></a><h2>Errors</h2><p>
            <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_ENUM</code> is generated if either <em class="parameter"><code>target</code></em> or <em class="parameter"><code>mode</code></em> is not
            an accepted value.
        </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="Copyright"></a><h2>Copyright</h2><p>
            Copyright <span class="trademark"></span>© 1991-2006
            Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI
            Free Software B License. For details, see
            <a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/" target="_top">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</a>.
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