<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">wglGetCurrentContext() does not create a context, it merely answers the context that was most recently made current. <div><br></div><div>Take a peek in sqWin32OpenGL.c in the B3DAcceleratorPlugin source code. It's hiding a lot of tedious stuff; "creating a context" is about a lot more than wrapping a single API call. The B3D plugin nicely abstracts this away so you can use the same setup code across platforms (and can also use Direct 3D as a backend, although Croquet-OpenGL doesn't use this).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Josh<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 7, 2010, at 8:50 PM, askoh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
I am curious why Croquet uses a primitive to create an opengl context
<br>instead of a straight call to wglGetCurrentContext()?
<br>Aik-Siong
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<br>On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 13:28:11 -0700 (PDT), "Josh Gargus [via Smalltalk]" wrote:
<br>Ah, you've got me there (I don't really use WGL directly). You should
<br>be able to do that without any new primitives.
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<br> > Cheers,
<br> > Josh
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