/Users/jab/Documents/Teaching/02585/GEL2_and_demos/GEL/src/GLGraphics/glsl_shader.h

#ifndef __GLGRAPHICS_GLSL_SHADER_H__
#define __GLGRAPHICS_GLSL_SHADER_H__

#include <GL/glew.h>
#include <string>

/* It is a little tricky to make shader programs in C++ using GLSL but the problems are
        almost all silly little things. For instance, how do you robustly read from a text 
        file? How do you compile a shader and check for errors? In OpenGL What is the difference 
        between a GLSL program and a shader anyway?

        The short answer to the last question is this: A "shader" can be either a vertex shader, 
        a geometry shader (in OpenGL 2.0) or a fragment shader. A "program" is a linked combination
        of these three types of shaders. Note that you don't have to have a geometry shader.
        
        This API attempts to obviate the need for an answer to the first two questions by providing 
        an API for loading and compiling shaders and checking for errors. However, I don't
        include functions for creating the program, attaching shaders and linking. Why not??!
        
        Because the need for flexibility means that the API would be just as complex as just using
        the OpenGL functions directly! However, loading shaders and checking for errors in compiled shaders
        is different. It makes sense to wrap that. It also makes sense to wrap the error checking for 
        programs that are linked, so there is a function for that too.
        
        Since shader loading and error check sandwhich the two calls needed for compilation, the most 
        important function in this API, create_glsl_shader, loads a shader, compiles it, checks for errors 
        and returns the shader handle. There is also a version which creates a shader from a string.
        
        There is some code below to illustrate usage.
        
<code snippet>
        // Create shaders directly from file
        GLuint vs = create_glsl_shader(GL_VERTEX_SHADER, shader_path, "tri.vert");
        GLuint gs = create_glsl_shader(GL_GEOMETRY_SHADER_EXT, shader_path, "tri.geom");
        GLuint fs = create_glsl_shader(GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER, shader_path, "tri.frag");

        // Create the program
        prog_P0 = glCreateProgram();
        
        // Attach all shaders
        if(vs) glAttachShader(prog_P0, vs);
        if(gs) glAttachShader(prog_P0, gs);
        if(fs) glAttachShader(prog_P0, fs);
        
        // Specify input and output for the geometry shader. Note that this must be
        // done before linking the program.
        glProgramParameteriEXT(prog_P0,GL_GEOMETRY_INPUT_TYPE_EXT,GL_TRIANGLES);
        glProgramParameteriEXT(prog_P0,GL_GEOMETRY_VERTICES_OUT_EXT,3);
        glProgramParameteriEXT(prog_P0,GL_GEOMETRY_OUTPUT_TYPE_EXT,GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP);

        // Link the program object and print out the info log
        glLinkProgram(prog_P0);
        print_glsl_program_log(prog_P0);
        
        // Install program object as part of current state
        glUseProgram(prog_P0);

        // Set the value of a uniform
        glUniform2f(glGetUniformLocation(prog_P0,"WIN_SCALE"), win_size_x/2.0, win_size_y/2.0);
</code snippet>
        
        Happy shader coding.
        
        Andreas Brentzen, 2007
        
        */

namespace GLGraphics
{
        void print_glsl_program_log(GLuint obj);
        
        const std::string read_glsl_source(const std::string& path, const std::string& file);
        
        GLuint create_glsl_shader(GLuint stype, const std::string& src);
                
        GLuint create_glsl_shader(GLuint stype, const std::string& path, const std::string& file);
}

#endif