This booklet provides a quick reference for the graPHIGS API. It is intended as a supplement to graPHIGS Programming Interface Technical Reference, in which the subroutines are described in detail.
The following abbreviations are used frequently throughout this manual:
| ADIB | Application Defaults Interface Block |
| ARCL | Archive Closed |
| AROP | Archive Open |
| ASAP | As Soon As Possible |
| ASF | Attribute Source Flag |
| ASTI | At Some Time |
| BNIG | Before Next Interaction Globally |
| BNIL | Before Next Interaction Locally |
| CMY | Cyan-Magenta-Yellow color model |
| CSID | Character Set Identifier |
| EDF | External Defaults File |
| HSV | Hue-Saturation-Value color model |
| NDT | Nucleus Descriptor Table |
| NROP | Non-Retained Structure Open |
| NSL | Nucleus State List |
| PDT | graPHIGS API Description Table |
| PHCL | graPHIGS Closed |
| PHOP | graPHIGS Open |
| PSL | graPHIGS API State List |
| RGB | Red-Green-Blue color model |
| SSCL | Structure Store Closed |
| SSL | Structure Store State List |
| SSOP | Structure Store Open |
| STCL | Structure Closed |
| STOP | Structure Open |
| UQUM | Quick Update Method |
| USL | Utility State List |
| WAIT | When Application Requests It |
| WDO | Workstation Dependent Output |
| WDT | Workstation Description Table |
| WSCL | Workstation Closed |
| WSID | Workstation Identifier |
| WSL | Workstation State List |
| WSOP | Workstation Open |
| WSSL | Workstation Selected |
| WSTYPE | Workstation Type |
The following abbreviations for coordinate spaces are used:
| DC | Device Coordinates |
| MC | Modeling Coordinates |
| NPC | Normalized Projection Coordinates |
| VC | Viewing Coordinates |
| WC | World Coordinates |
| WU | Workstation Units |