#13 WGL ChoosePixelFormat calling error

[David Hughes]

System: Win98, Python 2.2.2
PYOPENGL-2.0.0.44.WIN32-PY2.2.EXE
Win32 extensions v.148

Trying to run the openGLDemo .py included with Pythonwin, I
cannot execute
pfd = createPIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR()
because I don't seem to have that function.

I replaced the call with
pfd = PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR()
<snip value assignments>
ppfd = PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTORPtr(pfd)

the call that causes problems is
pixelformat = ChoosePixelFormat(dc, ppfd)
with the following trace

File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-
packages\Pythonwin\pywin\Demos\openGLDemo.py", line 121,
in _SetupPixelFormat
pixelformat = ChoosePixelFormat(dc, ppfd)
TypeError: Type error. Expected
_p_q_const__PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR

How should I be calling the PixelFormat functions?

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Since I recently purchased a card that can do it, I am now
looking into how to mulitsample in PyOpenGL.

However, I was hitting a road-block in my search. I was
looking at NeHe Lesson #46
(http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/lesson.asp?
lesson=46) and I was wondering where this "pfd" value came
along. I realized that there was a function named
wglChoosePixelFormatARB that came out of nowhere. I peeled
through my PyOpenGL directories, and module docs.

I found out that you have to
wglChoosePixelFormatARB=wglGetProcAddress
("wglChoosePixelFormatARB"), which makes the
wglChoosePixelFormatARB an integer, NOT a function.

I suspect that wglChoosePixelFormatARB is where this PFD
value comes from.