I have written a function that evaluates the result of glGetError() and prints the corresponding message:
void error(GLenum e)
{
switch (e)
{
case GL_INVALID_ENUM:
cout << "Error: GL_INVALID_ENUM" << endl;
system("pause");
break;
case GL_INVALID_VALUE:
cout << "Error: GL_INVALID_VALUE" << endl;
system("pause");
break;
case GL_INVALID_OPERATION:
cout << "Error: GL_INVALID_OPERATION" << endl;
system("pause");
break;
case GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION:
cout << "Error: GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION" << endl;
system("pause");
break;
case GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY:
cout << "Error: GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY" << endl;
system("pause");
break;
case GL_NO_ERROR:
cout << "No error reported" << endl;
break;
default:
cout << "Unknown error" << endl;
break;
}
}
However, EVERY time I call it:
error(glGetError());
It outputs “Error: GL_INVALID_ENUM”, even if the program works correctly.
Here is a very simple program that draws a blue rectangle and it works like a charm, however
adding a call to error(glGetError()) prints “Error: GL_INVALID_ENUM”.
What is going on here?
i assume you get that error while settin up the shader program:
https://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glGetShaderInfoLog.xml
try to pass a regular return value:
int loglength;
glGetShaderInfoLog(vs, 512, &loglength, vsLog);
GL_INVALID_ENUM essentially means you have passed a wrong value into a gl function
i’m using a similar function:
void CheckForGLError()
{
GLenum error;
while ((error = glGetError()) != GL_NO_ERROR)
{
std::cout << "ERROR: ";
if (error == GL_INVALID_ENUM)
std::cout << "GL_INVALID_ENUM";
if (error == GL_INVALID_VALUE)
std::cout << "GL_INVALID_VALUE";
if (error == GL_INVALID_OPERATION)
std::cout << "GL_INVALID_OPERATION";
if (error == GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION)
std::cout << "GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION";
if (error == GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY)
std::cout << "GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY";
if (error == GL_STACK_UNDERFLOW)
std::cout << "GL_STACK_UNDERFLOW";
if (error == GL_STACK_OVERFLOW)
std::cout << "GL_STACK_OVERFLOW";
std::cout << (char)7 << std::endl; /*play sound*/
std::cin.get();
}
}
you can do the same info log thing for your program (to check for any link errors):
https://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/docs/man/xhtml/glGetProgramInfoLog.xml
std::string ProgramInfoLog(unsigned int program)
{
if (glIsProgram(program))
{
int logsize;
char infolog[1024] = { 0 };
glGetProgramInfoLog(program, 1024, &logsize, infolog);
return std::string(infolog);
}
return "invalid program";
}
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Here is a very simple program that draws a blue rectangle and it works like a charm, however adding a call to error(glGetError()) prints “Error: GL_INVALID_ENUM”.
What is going on here?[/QUOTE]
glewInit() will generate this error if used with a core profile context. It calls glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS) to get the extension list, but this will generate GL_INVALID_ENUM with the core profile, where glGetString[b]i/b must be used instead. This is why you need to set glewExperimental when using a core profile context: detecting extensions fails and it assumes that no extensions are supported.
In order to check whether a particular section of code generated an error, it is necessary to clear any outstanding errors beforehand. Otherwise, you can’t distinguish between errors generated by that code and errors generated prior to it.
This requires calling glGetError() in a loop until it returns GL_NO_ERROR. OpenGL implementations can maintain multiple error flags, and each call to glGetError() will report (and clear) at most one error flag, only returning GL_NO_ERROR when all error flags are clear.
Thanks, it works!
while(true)
{
if (glGetError() == GL_NO_ERROR)
break;
}