| | 1 | \section{\class{wxGLContext}}\label{wxglcontext} |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | An instance of a wxGLContext represents the state of an OpenGL state machine and the connection between OpenGL and the system. |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | The OpenGL state includes everything that can be set with the OpenGL API: colors, rendering variables, display lists, texture objects, etc. |
| | 6 | Although it is possible to have multiple rendering contexts share display lists in order to save resources, |
| | 7 | this method is hardly used today any more, because display lists are only a tiny fraction of the overall state. |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | Therefore, one rendering context is usually used with or bound to multiple output windows in turn, |
| | 10 | so that the application has access to the \emph{complete and identical} state while rendering into each window. |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | Binding (making current) a rendering context with another instance of a wxGLCanvas however works only |
| | 13 | if the other wxGLCanvas was created with the same attributes as the wxGLCanvas from which the wxGLContext |
| | 14 | was initialized. (This applies to sharing display lists among contexts analogously.) |
| | 15 | |
| | 16 | Note that some wxGLContext features are extremely platform-specific - its best to check your native platform's glcanvas header (on windows include/wx/msw/glcanvas.h) to see what features your native platform provides. |
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| | 18 | \wxheading{Derived from} |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | \helpref{wxObject}{wxobject} |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | \wxheading{Include files} |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | <wx/glcanvas.h> |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | \wxheading{See also} |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | \helpref{wxGLCanvas}{wxglcanvas} |
| | 29 | |
| | 30 | \latexignore{\rtfignore{\wxheading{Members}}} |
| | 31 | |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | \membersection{wxGLContext::wxGLContext}\label{wxglcontextconstr} |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | \func{ }{wxGLContext}{ \param{wxGLCanvas*}{ win}, \param{const wxGLContext*}{ other=NULL} } |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | Constructor. |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | \docparam{win}{The canvas that is used to initialize this context. This parameter is needed only temporarily, |
| | 40 | and the caller may do anything with it (e.g. destroy the window) after the constructor returned. |
| | 41 | |
| | 42 | It will be possible to bind (make current) this context to any other wxGLCanvas that has been created |
| | 43 | with equivalent attributes as {\it win}.} |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | \docparam{other}{Context to share display lists with or NULL (the default) for no sharing.} |
| | 46 | |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | \membersection{wxGLContext::SetCurrent}\label{wxglcontextsetcurrent} |
| | 49 | |
| | 50 | \func{void}{SetCurrent}{\param{const wxGLCanvas\&}{ win}} |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | Makes the OpenGL state that is represented by this rendering context current with the wxGLCanvas {\it win}. |
| | 53 | Note that {\it win} can be a different wxGLCanvas window than the one that was passed to the constructor of this rendering context. |
| | 54 | If { \it RC } is an object of type wxGLContext, the statements {\it RC.SetCurrent(win);} and {\it win.SetCurrent(RC);} are equivalent, |
| | 55 | see \helpref{wxGLCanvas::SetCurrent}{wxglcanvassetcurrent}. |
| | 56 | |
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