How to properly use glPrimitiveRestartIndex().

Lavonne

Of the following two code snippets the first draws 6 individual quads, while the second draws jumbled triangles as result of failing to restart primitives at 0xffff marker. How should I adjust the code as to properly enable GL_PRIMITIVE_RESTART_INDEX.
QOpenGLFunctions::glPrimitiveRestartIndex() fails to activate or restart index incorrectly marked.

Here is code snippet, and thank you in advance if you can help :)

/// . . . setup shaders and matrices
/// object 'scene' is initialized QOpengGLFunctions object

scene->glViewport(0, 0, w, h);
scene->glClearColor(0.0, 0.3, 0.0, 1.0);
scene->glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

///

/**
/// BOX - individual draw commands :(
if (mode == Scene::Render_By_Camera)   bindTextureIndex(Box_Tex);
bindBufferIndex(Box_Vbo);
static GLushort box_indices[6][4] =
    { { 0, 1, 2, 3 }, { 4, 5, 6, 7 }, { 8, 9, 10, 11 }, { 12, 13, 14, 15 }, { 16, 17, 18, 19 }, { 20, 21, 22, 23 } };
/// draw 6 sides of box fine
scene->glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, 4, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, box_indices[0]); /// NegX
scene->glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, 4, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, box_indices[1]); /// PosZ
scene->glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, 4, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, box_indices[2]); /// PosX
scene->glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, 4, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, box_indices[3]); /// PosX
scene->glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, 4, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, box_indices[4]); /// NegZ
scene->glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, 4, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, box_indices[5]); /// PosY
**/
/// BOX - Single Draw Command :)
    /// enable primitive restart, as QOpenGLFunctions does not directly support it
static QOpenGLContext * context = QOpenGLContext::currentContext();
QOpenGLFunctions_3_1 * functions = context->versionFunctions<QOpenGLFunctions_3_1> (); /// first version supporting glPrimitiveRestartIndex()
if (!functions->initializeOpenGLFunctions())   qWarning() << "QOpenGLFunctions_3_1 not initialized!";
    /// setup array
static GLushort box_ids[29] =
    { 0, 1, 2, 3, 0xFFFF, 4, 5, 6, 7, 0xFFFF, 8, 9, 10, 11, 0xFFFF, 12, 13, 14, 15, 0xFFFF, 16, 17, 18, 19, 0xFFFF, 20, 21, 22, 23 };
    /// draws scrambled vertex soup as GL_PRIMITIVE_RESTART does NOT SEEM TO EFFECT RESULTS
if (mode == Scene::Render_By_Camera)   bindTextureIndex(Box_Tex);
bindBufferIndex(Box_Vbo);
functions->glPrimitiveRestartIndex(0xFFFF);
scene->glEnable(GL_PRIMITIVE_RESTART_INDEX);
scene->glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_FAN, 29, GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, box_ids);