Renderers

Topics in this overview include:

• General Information
• Rendering Controls
• Multipass Rendering
• Pipeline State
• Renderer Interaction with Ancillary Buffers
• Response to Drawable Changes
• Renderer Attributes
• Renderer Requests
• Renderer Requests for PEXlib 5.0 and 5.1 Compatibility
• Renderer Attribute Descriptions which includes:
  • Background Color
  • Clear Alpha
  • Clear Image
  • Clear Z-buffer
  • Clear Z-buffer Value
  • Clip List
  • Color Approximation Table
  • Color Table
  • Current Path
  • Data Mapping Table
  • Depth Cue Table
  • Echo Color
  • Echo Method
  • Echo Mode
  • Edge Bundle Table
  • Extent Size Table
  • Highlight Exclusion Name Set
  • Highlight Inclusion Name Set
  • Highlight Table
  • HLHSR Mode
  • Interior Bundle Table
  • Invisibility Exclusion Name Set
  • Invisibility Inclusion Name Set
  • Light Table
  • Line Bundle Table
  • Marker Bundle Table
  • Marker Glyph Table
  • NPC Subvolume
  • Pattern Table
  • PHIGS Interior Bundle Mode
  • Pick Exclusion Name Set
  • Pick Inclusion Name Set
  • Pick Start Path
  • Pipeline Context
  • Pixel Color Mode
  • Renderer State
  • Text Bundle Table
  • Text Font Table
  • Texture Mapping Table
  • Transparency Method
  • Transparency Thresholds
  • Viewport
  • View Table

The PEXlib Renderer functions described in this section include:

• PEXAccumulateState
• PEXBeginRendering
• PEXBeginStructure
• PEXBindDrawableToRenderer
• PEXChangeRendererExtAttributes
• PEXClearRenderer
• PEXCopyAlphaBufferToPixmap
• PEXCopyPCToPipelineState
• PEXCopyPipelineStateToPC
• PEXCopyPixmapToAlphaBuffer
• PEXCopyPixmapToZBuffer
• PEXCopyZBufferToPixmap
• PEXCreateRendererWithExtAttributes
• PEXEndRendering
• PEXEndStructure
• PEXFlushRenderer
• PEXFreeRenderer
• PEXFreeRendererExtAttributes
• PEXGetRendererExtAttributes
• PEXGetZBuffer
• PEXInitMultipass
• PEXInitRenderer
• PEXNextPass
• PEXNextPassWithoutReply
• PEXPutZBuffer
• PEXRenderElements
• PEXRenderNetwork
• PEXSetRendererExtAttributeMask
• PEXSetRendererExtAttributeMaskAll

and the following compatibility functions:

• PEXChangeRenderer
• PEXCreateRenderer see Renderers.
• PEXFreeRendererAttributes
• PEXGetRendererAttributes
• PEXGetRendererDynamics