[Public WebGL] Null return values from create*

[Glenn Maynard]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Gregg Tavares (勤) <gma...@> wrote:

> Where are all the places one would return these invalid objects?
>
> createProgram,
> createShader,
> createTexture,
> createBuffer,
> createRenderbuffer
> createFramebuffer,
> getUniformLocation?
> getActiveAttrib
> getActiveUniform
>
> getUniformLocation seems a little weird in that passing it a uniform that
> does not exist returns NULL but passing it a uniform after context lost
> returns an invalid location? Or still NULL?
>

We're only really talking about functions that return WebGLObject
subclasses, since those are the ones that have an invalidated flag to use
instead of a null return value.  WebGLUniformLocation and WebGLActiveInfo
don't have an invalidated state, since it's not a WebGLObject.  I'd look at
these later, if we start looking at reducing other null return values.


> how about getParameter?
>

getParameter is hard, since there are a lot of possible arguments with
varying reasonable "placeholder" results.  I'd defer this, too.

While I'm thinking about it: does getParameter() define that values like
MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS and VIEWPORT always return a new object, as opposed to
returning the same object each time?

-- 
Glenn Maynard
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