[PyOpenGL-Users] Re: Have exceptions terminate glutMainLoop (Tarn Weisner Burton)

[Frederic G. <fr...@sc...>]

pyo...@li... wrote:

> | But what if glGetError() gets raise in the event loop ?
> | Shouldn't this be catched, without regard to the origin of the glError ?
> |
> | If this were the case, glutMainLoop should also check for glGetError()...
>
> glutMainLoop does get checked for glGetError, but this check is useless
> since glutMainLoop never returns.
>
> Anyways, the debate is not over glGetError, but Python exceptions.
>

More precisely, the debate is about mapping Python exceptions with glErrors -
Python code is being run under the control of a glut function -.

Does anybody knows what happens is a glError is raised by opengl in a
glutMainLoop() callback function ?

FG