---
name: "icetAddTile"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "paraview"
version: "5.13.2+dfsg-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/icetAddTile"
---

# icetAddTile(3)

## NAME

**icetAddTile -- add a tile to the logical display.**

## Synopsis

\#include \<IceT.h\>

| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| int **icetAddTile**( | IceTInt | *x*, |
|  | IceTInt | *y*, |
|  | IceTSizeType | *width*, |
|  | IceTSizeType | *height*, |
|  | int | *display\_rank* ); |

## Description

Adds a tile to the tiled display. Every process, whether actually displaying a tile or not, must declare the tiles in the display and which processes drive them with **icetResetTiles** and **icetAddTile**. Thus, each process calls **icetAddTile** once for each tile in the display, and all processes must declare them in the same order.

The parameters *x*, *y*, *width*, and *height* define the tile's viewport in the logical global display much in the same way **glViewport** declares a region in a physical display in **OpenGL** .**IceT** places no limits on the extents of the logical global display. That is, there are no limits on the values of *x* and *y*. They can extend as far as they want in both the positive and negative directions.

**IceT** will project its images onto the region of the logical global display that just covers all of the tiles. Therefore, shifting all the tiles in the logical global display by the same amount will have no real overall effect.

The *display\_rank* parameter identifies the rank of the process that will be displaying the given tile. It is assumed that the output of the rendering window of the given process is projected onto the space in a tiled display given by *x*, *y*, *width*, and *height*. Each tile must have a valid rank (between 0 and $**ICET\_NUM\_PROCESSES** - 1$). Furthermore, no process may be displaying more than one tile.

## Return Value

Returns the index of the tile created or -1 if the tile could not be created.

## Errors

- **ICET\_INVALID\_VALUE**

   Raised if *display\_rank* is not a valid process rank, if *display\_rank* is already assigned to another tile, or if *width* or *height* is smaller than 1. If this error is raised, nothing is done and -1 is returned.

## Warnings

None.

## Bugs

All processes must specify the same tiles in the same order. **IceT**  will assume this even though it is not explicitly detected or enforced.

## Copyright

Copyright (C)2003 Sandia Corporation

Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software.

This source code is released under the New BSD License.

## See Also

[*icetResetTiles*(3)](/icetResetTiles/3.md), [*icetPhysicalRenderSize*(3)](/icetPhysicalRenderSize/3.md)