14 Apr
2002
14 Apr
'02
9:28 a.m.
Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
C. Reinke wrote:
[...] I found that I had to move the call to genLists after createWindow.
I'd expect that, because most (all?) versions of GLUT don't initialize the OpenGL context until the window has actually been created. [...]
Exactly, I just had a look in the GLUT sources. So the general rule of thumb is: Issue OpenGL calls *after* the first createWindow, never before. This makes sense perfectly: Remember that you could have multiple Windows, so the effect of e.g. setting the current to color depends on the current GLX/OpenGL context. The latter one is created with createWindow, changed with e.g. setWindow, overlay handling, etc. etc. Cheers, S.