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
Like the other binding APIs, CGL has routines for controlling OpenGL’s interaction with the windowing system, including managing OpenGL contexts.
Managing an OpenGL Rendering Context
After selecting a pixel format, create an OpenGL context by calling CGLCreateContext() using the returned CGLPixelFormatObj object. Once the context is created, you need to call CGLSetCurrentContext() to make the context current and available for OpenGL rendering.