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						Specifies an index into the enabled vertex data arrays.
					</dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="glArrayElement.3G-description"/><h2>Description</h2><p>
			<tt>glArrayElement</tt> commands are used within <a href="glBegin.3G.xml"><tt>glBegin</tt></a>/<a href="glBegin.3G.xml"><tt>glEnd</tt></a> pairs to specify vertex and attribute data for point, line, and polygon
			primitives. If <tt>GL_VERTEX_ARRAY</tt> is enabled when <tt>glArrayElement</tt> is called, a
			single vertex is drawn, using vertex and attribute data taken from location <i><tt>i</tt></i> of the enabled
			arrays. If <tt>GL_VERTEX_ARRAY</tt> is not enabled, no drawing occurs but the attributes corresponding to
			the enabled arrays are modified.
		</p><p>
			Use <tt>glArrayElement</tt> to construct primitives by indexing vertex data, rather than by streaming
			through arrays of data in first-to-last order. Because each call specifies only a single vertex, it is possible to
			explicitly specify per-primitive attributes such as a single normal per individual triangle.
		</p><p>
			Changes made to array data between the execution of <a href="glBegin.3G.xml"><tt>glBegin</tt></a> and the
			corresponding execution of <a href="glBegin.3G.xml"><tt>glEnd</tt></a> may affect calls to
			<tt>glArrayElement</tt> that are made within the same <a href="glBegin.3G.xml"><tt>glBegin</tt></a>/<a href="glBegin.3G.xml"><tt>glEnd</tt></a> period in non-sequential ways.
			That is, a call to <tt>glArrayElement</tt> that precedes a change to array data may access the changed
			data, and a call that follows a change to array data may access original data.
		</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="glArrayElement.3G-notes"/><h2>Notes</h2><p>
			<tt>glArrayElement</tt> is available only if the GL version is 1.1 or greater.
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			<tt>glArrayElement</tt> is included in display lists. If <tt>glArrayElement</tt> is entered
			into a display list, the necessary array data (determined by the array pointers and enables) is also entered into the
			display list. Because the array pointers and enables are client-side state, their values affect display lists when the
			lists are created, not when the lists are executed.
		</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="glArrayElement.3G-see_also"/><h2>See Also</h2><p>
			<span class="simplelist"><a href="glClientActiveTextureARB.3G.xml">glClientActiveTextureARB</a>, <a href="glColorPointer.3G.xml">glColorPointer</a>, <a href="glDrawArrays.3G.xml">glDrawArrays</a>, <a href="glEdgeFlagPointer.3G.xml">glEdgeFlagPointer</a>, <a href="glGetPointerv.3G.xml">glGetPointerv</a>, <a href="glIndexPointer.3G.xml">glIndexPointer</a>, <a href="glInterleavedArrays.3G.xml">glInterleavedArrays</a>, <a href="glNormalPointer.3G.xml">glNormalPointer</a>, <a href="glTexCoordPointer.3G.xml">glTexCoordPointer</a>, <a href="glVertexPointer.3G.xml">glVertexPointer</a></span>
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