OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT

Chapter 6. Creating a Windows OpenGL View Class

	To a programmer, it’s never concrete ’til they see code.
	--John Vlissides

Encapsulating OpenGL

So far we’ve covered the basic OpenGL operations and have learned how to create an OpenGL window under Windows. The simplest way to use OpenGL is to encapsulate and keep all this functionality in one place. After all, the process of creating an OpenGL window when using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) is going to be the same, no matter what the objective of your OpenGL program is going to be. Thus we can encapsulate all this initialization and setup, using C++ as a reusable class for viewing OpenGL scenes. If you’ve never used MFC before or if you use another framework, the next section will give ...