opengl and directdraw

opengldev · February 20, 2002, 12:21am

can i use both opengl and ddraw in one application?

chowe6685 · February 20, 2002, 4:53pm

no, not unless your completely release one and reinitialize the other

Bob · February 20, 2002, 9:56pm

Mmm, well, I assume you can use both at the same time, in the same program, if you don’t use them in the same window. Can’t see any reason why you can’t use them on different windows.

opengldev · February 20, 2002, 11:48pm

Thanks

opengldev · February 21, 2002, 1:38am

Then how can I use swap buffer without glaux or glut?

tcobbs · February 21, 2002, 11:26am

Make sure to ask for a double-buffered pixel format when you call ChoosePixelFormat (include PFD_DOUBLEBUFFER in dwFlags). After you have set up your OpenGL Rendering Context on a window that uses a double buffered pixel format, just call SwapBuffers to swap buffers.

If the question you really wanted to ask was how to create an OpenGL window without using glaux or glut, then I would suggest scanning this group for past posts.

nickels · February 22, 2002, 6:22am

I was once able to have opengl draw to a directdraw surface. However, I changed video cards and it no longer worked. I suspect this is not a standard thing to do.