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I want to get world coordinates at a screen x,y position.  I call glReadPixels (with the GL.GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT param) to get the depth value at a mouse click position, but I don't know how to pass for the "pixels" param.  

I'm following an example at NeHe: http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/articles/article.asp?article=13 .  I'm expecting to get a depth value between 0 and 1 but no matter how I call glReadPixels I always get back a depth value of 1.06469197E9.

   static private void checkPoint(int x, int y) {
      DoubleBuffer modelview = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(16*8).order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder()).asDoubleBuffer();
      DoubleBuffer projection = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(16*8).order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder()).asDoubleBuffer();
      DoubleBuffer result = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(3*8).order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder()).asDoubleBuffer();
      IntBuffer viewport = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(4*4).order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder()).asIntBuffer();
      IntBuffer zdepth = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(1*4).order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder()).asIntBuffer();
      float z;

      GL.glGetDouble(GL.GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, modelview);
      GL.glGetDouble(GL.GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, projection);
      GL.glGetInteger(GL.GL_VIEWPORT, viewport);

      // get the depth at given x,y
      GL.glReadPixels(x, y, 1, 1, GL.GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL.GL_FLOAT, zdepth);
      z = ((float)(zdepth.get(0)));

      System.out.println("Zdepth=" + (float)z);
      System.out.println("V0=" + viewport.get(0) + " V1=" + viewport.get(1)
                         + " V2=" + viewport.get(2) + " V3=" + viewport.get(3) );
      System.out.println("Screen Coords at cursor are " + x + "," + y);

      GLU.gluUnProject((double)x, (double)y, (double)0,  modelview, projection, viewport, result);
      float ox = (float)result.get(0);
      float oy = (float)result.get(1);
      float oz = (float)result.get(2);
      System.out.println("World Coords at near clip plane are: "+ox+", "+oy+", "+oz);

      GLU.gluUnProject((double)x, (double)y, (double)1,  modelview, projection, viewport, result);
      ox = (float)result.get(0);
      oy = (float)result.get(1);
      oz = (float)result.get(2);
      System.out.println("World Coords at far clip plane are: "+ox+", "+oy+", "+oz);
   }

The function output looks right for the world coords at the near and far clip planes:

     Zdepth=1.06469197E9
     V0=0 V1=0 V2=1024 V3=768
     Screen Coords at cursor are 534,370
     World Coords at near clip plane are: 0.024808, -0.021049, 14.0
     World Coords at far clip plane are: 0.74424, -0.63147, -14.999

Try making the zdepth buffer a ByteBuffer. Then z = zdepth.getFloat();

thanks spasi,

The ByteBuffer/getFloat combo works.