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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" /><title>eglInitialize</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0" /></head><body><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="eglInitialize"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>eglInitialize — 
            initialize an <acronym class="acronym">EGL</acronym> display connection
        </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>C Specification</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">EGLBoolean <b class="fsfunc">eglInitialize</b>(</code></td><td>EGLDisplay <var class="pdparam">display</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>EGLint * <var class="pdparam">major</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>EGLint * <var class="pdparam">minor</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></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>display</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
                        Specifies the EGL display connection to initialize.
                    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>major</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
                        Returns the major version number of the EGL implementation.
                        May be <code class="constant">NULL</code>.
                    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>minor</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
                        Returns the minor version number of the EGL implementation.
                        May be <code class="constant">NULL</code>.
                    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
            <code class="function">eglInitialize</code> initialized the EGL display
            connection obtained with
            <a class="citerefentry" href="eglGetDisplay.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">eglGetDisplay</span></span></a>.
            Initializing an already initialized EGL display connection has no
            effect besides returning the version numbers.
        </p><p>
            <em class="parameter"><code>major</code></em> and <em class="parameter"><code>minor</code></em>
            do not return values if they are specified as <code class="constant">NULL</code>.
        </p><p>
            Use <a class="citerefentry" href="eglTerminate.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">eglTerminate</span></span></a>
            to release resources associated with an EGL display connection.
        </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="errors"></a><h2>Errors</h2><p>
            <code class="constant">EGL_FALSE</code> is returned if
            <code class="function">eglInitialize</code> fails,
            <code class="constant">EGL_TRUE</code> otherwise.
            <em class="parameter"><code>major</code></em> and <em class="parameter"><code>minor</code></em> are not
            modified when <code class="constant">EGL_FALSE</code> is returned.
        </p><p>
            <code class="constant">EGL_BAD_DISPLAY</code> is generated if
            <em class="parameter"><code>display</code></em> is not an EGL display connection.
        </p><p>
            <code class="constant">EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED</code> is generated if
            <em class="parameter"><code>display</code></em> cannot be initialized.
        </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p>
            <a class="citerefentry" href="eglGetDisplay.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">eglGetDisplay</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="eglTerminate.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">eglTerminate</span></span></a>
        </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="copyright"></a><h2>Copyright</h2><p>
            Copyright <span class="trademark"></span>© 2003-2004
            Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI
            Free Software B License. For details, see
            <a class="ulink" href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/" target="_top">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</a>.
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