| handle |
| List of: | Glossary Items | |
| Subjects: | Viewing | |
| Contents: | Glossary | |
| A reference to a data object. Although a handle may be a pointer to some data structure, the actual internal structure of the object is intended to be opaque to the application developer. Any property of the object should be set or retrieved through function calls. Handles are used extensively within the rendering library to refer to a variety of objects, such as geometric primitives or attribute states. | |||||