Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] PyOpenGL and 3.2 Core Profiles (OS X Lion)

[Ian M. <geo...@gm...>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:50 PM, T.J. Jankun-Kelly <tj...@cs...>wrote:

> I'm adapting my Computer Graphics class to the 3.2 Core Profile (as it is
> now supported by OS X). However, GLUT.framework does not expose methods to
> create contexts before creating windows (so I can't request a 3.2 context)
> and freeglut is X based, not Cocoa, so I'm not sure if it'll work (and I'd
> rather not go X). So, a few questions:
>
> - Has anyone gotten PyOpenGL and OpenGL 3.2 to work on OS X? With what
> means of generating/managing windows?
> - Similar question for Windows. The Glut interface for PyOpenGL does't
> expose the freeglut glutInitContextVersion  et al so I'm not sure how one
> would do about it there.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> TJK
>
I highly recommend SDL as a cross-platform windowing library.  Has much
better context creation support from GLUT.  In Python, that's PyGame.
 PyGame and PyOpenGL should theoretically work on all platforms.