Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] GL_VENDOR

[Mads I. <mp...@co...>]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Mads Ipsen wrote:
>   
>> How come glGetString(GL_VENDOR) returns None if I don't have an OpenGL 
>> context?
>>     
>
> Because you don't *have* an OpenGL vendor until you
> have a context. Contexts belonging to different
> display devices can be using drivers from different
> vendors, so it's a property of the context rather
> than something global.
>
> Something it's easy to overlook about OpenGL is
> that it's really an object-oriented system, with
> almost all of the functions being methods of the
> context. But the API does a good job of hiding this
> by making the current context an implicit global
> parameter.
>
>   
Thanks for the answer. My question can then be boiled down to:

How do I in the simplest possible manner set up an OpenGL context
so I can query the vendor string?

Best regards,

Mads

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