[PyOpenGL-Users] Using the raw ctypes autogenerated wrappers

[Lorenzo M. <lma...@de...>]

Hi all,

the section "Autogenerated wrappers" in the document:

http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ctypes/development.html

states that it is possible to directly import and use the modules in the
OpenGL.raw packages, should one want to use the bare ctypes generated
wrappers directly.

My first approach to do that was replacing imports from OpenGL.GL to
imports from OpenGL.raw.GL in my code; all symbols were imported, I
could call functions and so on, but every immediate mode operation
failed on the call to glEnd, with the error system reporting an
unhelpful err 1282 "invalid operation".

Puzzled a lot, I started browsing PyOpenGL sources to find out that, if
OpenGL.ERROR_CHECKING is True (default, see OpenGL/__init__.py),
OpenGL/GL/exceptional.py decorates glBegin/glEnd adding some logic to
perform error checking.

Setting OpenGL.ERROR_CHECKING = False in my code allows it to run using
the raw ctypes wrappers (and get the nice 100% performance boost I was
looking for, at the cost of some ctypes pollution in the code), but that
looks like a kludge to me: what if one wants error checking with raw
wrappers?  Is that possible at all?

(btw this is on PyOpenGL 3.0.0c1, on Windows XP SP3)

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Lorenzo Mancini