Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] glGenVertexArrays producing 'invalid enumerant' error.

[Mike C. F. <vrp...@gm...>]

On 11-11-08 10:38 PM, Gordon Wrigley wrote:
> On an impulse I tried broke.py on another linux machine I have access
> to that has Nvidia drivers on it, the result was the same but the
> details differed. Particularly problems 2, 3 & 4 were replaced by this:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "broke.py", line 145, in <module>
>     main(sys.argv)
>   File "broke.py", line 115, in main
>     glBindVertexArray(vao)
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/platform/baseplatform.py",
> line 371, in __call__
>     if self.load():
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/platform/baseplatform.py",
> line 351, in load
>     if not platform.PLATFORM.checkExtension( self.extension ):
>   File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/platform/baseplatform.py",
> line 246, in checkExtension
>     result = extensions.hasGLExtension( name )
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenGL/extensions.py",
> line 54, in hasGLExtension
>     AVAILABLE_GL_EXTENSIONS[:] = glGetString( GL_EXTENSIONS ).split()
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'
Hmm, without error checking that will return None if the entry point is
not provided by the context (i.e. a core/forward-compatible-only
context).  That definitely will break.

Thanks,
Mike

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