HP SVA V2.0 Parallel Compositing Reference Guide

About This Document
This document describes the visualization Parallel Compositing Library developed by HP and
Computational Engineering International (CEI). The document provides information on the
library architecture and its functions.
1 Intended Audience
Application developers.
2 Document Organization
This document is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 This chapter provides an overview of the Parallel Compositing
Library (the Library), including its terminology and a typical calling
sequence.
Reference Sections The remaining sections of the book provide detailed syntax of
Library functions, organized by purpose, and then alphabetically
within each section.
3 Typographic Conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
%, $, or #
A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar
sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne, Korn, and
POSIX shells. A number sign represents the superuser prompt.
audit(5) A manpage. The manpage name is audit, and it is located in
section 5.
Command
A command name or qualified command phrase.
Computer output
Text displayed by the computer.
Ctrl+x A key sequence. A sequence such as Ctrl+x indicates that you
must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while you press another
key or mouse button.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE The name of an environment variable, for example, PATH.
[ERROR NAME]
The name of an error, usually returned in the errno variable.
Key The name of a keyboard key. Return and Enter both refer to the
same key.
Term The defined use of an important word or phrase.
User input
Commands and other text that you type.
Variable
The name of a placeholder in a command, function, or other
syntax display that you replace with an actual value.
[] The contents are optional in syntax. If the contents are a list
separated by a pipe ( | ), you must choose one of the items.
{} The contents are required in syntax. If the contents are a list
separated by a pipe ( | ), you must choose one of the items.
... The preceding element can be repeated an arbitrary number of
times.
 Indicates the continuation of a code example.
| Separates items in a list of choices.