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package javax.media.opengl;

/** Provides offscreen rendering support via pbuffers. The principal
    addition of this interface is a {@link #destroy} method to
    deallocate the pbuffer and its associated resources. It also
    contains experimental methods for accessing the pbuffer's contents
    as a texture map and enabling rendering to floating-point frame
    buffers. These methods are not guaranteed to be supported on all
    platforms and may be deprecated in a future release. */

public interface GLPbuffer extends GLAutoDrawable {
  /** Indicates the GL_APPLE_float_pixels extension is being used for this pbuffer. */
  public static final int APPLE_FLOAT = 1;

  /** Indicates the GL_ATI_texture_float extension is being used for this pbuffer. */
  public static final int ATI_FLOAT = 2;

  /** Indicates the GL_NV_float_buffer extension is being used for this pbuffer. */
  public static final int NV_FLOAT = 3;

  /** Binds this pbuffer to its internal texture target. Only valid to
      call if offscreen render-to-texture has been specified in the
      NWCapabilities for this GLPbuffer. If the
      render-to-texture-rectangle capability has also been specified,
      this will use e.g. wglBindTexImageARB as its implementation and
      cause the texture to be bound to e.g. the
      GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_NV state; otherwise, during the display()
      phase the pixels will have been copied into an internal texture
      target and this will cause that to be bound to the GL_TEXTURE_2D
      state. */
  public void bindTexture();

  /** Unbinds the pbuffer from its internal texture target. */
  public void releaseTexture();

  /** Destroys the native resources associated with this pbuffer. It
      is not valid to call display() or any other routines on this
      pbuffer after it has been destroyed. Before destroying the
      pbuffer, the application must destroy any additional OpenGL
      contexts which have been created for the pbuffer via {@link
      #createContext}. */
  public void destroy();

  /** Indicates which vendor's extension is being used to support
      floating point channels in this pbuffer if that capability was
      requested in the NWCapabilities during pbuffer creation. Returns
      one of NV_FLOAT, ATI_FLOAT or APPLE_FLOAT, or throws GLException
      if floating-point channels were not requested for this pbuffer.
      This function may only be called once the init method for this
      pbuffer's GLEventListener has been called. */
  public int getFloatingPointMode();
}
