March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
984 pages
26h 18m
English
book
OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition
by Dave Shreiner, Graham Sellers, John M. Kessenich, Bill M. Licea-Kane
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Controlling Rendering
Several GLX routines are provided for creating and managing an OpenGL rendering context. Routines are also provided for such tasks as handling GLX events, synchronizing execution between the X and OpenGL streams, swapping front and back buffers, and using an X font.
Managing an OpenGL Rendering Context
An OpenGL rendering context is created with either glXCreateNewContext() or glXCreateContextAttribsARB(), whose use is required in OpenGL Version 3.0 and greater. One of the arguments to these routines allows you to request a direct rendering context that bypasses the X server as described previously. (To perform direct rendering, the X server connection must be local, and the OpenGL implementation needs to support direct ...