26.4 OpenGL code in Windows


OpenGL is a platform-neutral library. It can run on operating systems such as X-Windows, the Macintosh, or Windows. In each of these systems you add a little extra code in order to interface your system to OpenGL.

The basic Win32 library includes a few built-in data types and functions to be used with OpenGL. Here's a block of code that shows how we initialize a window and update it. The data types PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR and HGLR are special built-in Windows types used for working with OpenGL. And :: ChoosePixelFormat , :: SelectPixelFormat , :: wglCreateContext , and :: SwapBuffers are built-in Windows methods for use with OpenGL.

 PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR pixelformat;  int pixelformat_index;  HGLR openglrenderingcontext;  HDC hdc_view;  //Initialize the Window.  pixelformatindex = ::ChoosePixelFormat(hdc, &pixelFormat);  ::SelectPixelFormat(hdc, pixelformatindex, &pixelFormat);  openglrenderingcontext = ::wglCreateContext(hdc_view);  ::glMakeCurrent(hdc_view, openglrenderingcontext);  /* Use ::gl... and ::glu... calls to set GL states, add GL vertices,      load GL textures,  //the example of a square was given in the previous subsection. */  //Update the Window  ::glFinish()  ::SwapBuffers(hdc_view); 

Note that you don't need to re-initialize the window for every update. Each time you want to load the OpenGL state machine and send something new to the screen, it suffices to call :: glMakeCurrent again, using the same openglrender ingcontext . In the Pop Framework, the call to :: glMakeCurrent is encapsulated into our cGraphicsOpenGL::activate() method.



Software Engineering and Computer Games
Software Engineering and Computer Games
ISBN: B00406LVDU
EAN: N/A
Year: 2002
Pages: 272

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