glColor() problem

[suresh kannan]

Hi,
In my application when i am getting the current color, it gives (0,0,0,0). I am not calling glColor() function.

But in glColor() documentation i saw the following line.

The initial value for the current color is (1, 1, 1, 1).

What is the reason for that?

Thanks,
Kannan A S

[Bob]

Do you use any vertex arrays with a color buffer? If so, maybe black is the last color used in that array. Another thing is that you haven't created a rendering context before getting the current color.

[Ritchie]

Why bother getting the color values? It is cheaper to always set the color, even when you are setting it to the current color (according to the red book)

Ritchie