wglGetCurrentContext() does not create a context, it merely answers the context that was most recently made current.  

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).

Cheers,
Josh


On Jun 7, 2010, at 8:50 PM, askoh wrote:

I am curious why Croquet uses a primitive to create an opengl context
instead of a straight call to wglGetCurrentContext()?
Aik-Siong
 
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 13:28:11 -0700 (PDT), "Josh Gargus [via Smalltalk]"  wrote:
Ah, you've got me there (I don't really use WGL directly).  You should
be able to do that without any new primitives.
  >
  > Cheers,
  > Josh
  >


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