Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] Problem with glXCreatePixmap

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

Jerome Fuselier wrote:
> Hello,
>   I tried to use the glXCreatePixmap method from the GLX package of 
> PyOpenGL but I'm stucked with the needed parameters and don't really 
> find some examples on how to use the python binding.

Your "Xlib" library may have some way of retrieving the display, 
configuration and pixmap pointers (the underlying X pointers, not the 
Python objects).  It will likely return those as integers, and those 
values can be passed to the function.

Hope that helps,
Mike
> >>> from Xlib.display import Display
> >>> from OpenGL.GLX import *
> >>> d = Display()
> >>> root = d.screen().root
> >>> pixmap = root.create_pixmap(256, 256, 8)
> >>> glXCreateWindow(d, cfg, pixmap, 0)

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