Question

I am trying to learn OpenGL on the iPhone using the “Super Bible” but am having trouble porting from OpenGLto OpenGL ES. My understanding is that the glRectf() function is not available in the latter. What is the substitute approach? Any relevant conceptual information would be appreciated as well.

Answer 1

The substitute approach is to draw a triangle strip:

GLfloat texture[] =
{
    0, 0,
    0, 1,
    1, 0,
    1, 1
};

GLfloat model[] =
{
    0, 0, // lower left
    0, h, // upper left
    w, 0, // lower right
    w, h  // upper right
};

glEnableClientState(GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
glEnableClientState(GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY);

glVertexPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, model);
glTexCoordPointer(2, GL_FLOAT, 0, texture);
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);

This draws a textured rectangle with width w and height h.