I want to draw a sphere using a custom sphere() fn.When Im using the function in display() function.Its working.When i use it in the main() its not working??Please some one help me.Even though when im using glutPostRedisplay().The function sphere() is not working when written in main().
When you call the sphere function, you must have a valid GL context otherwise drawing call have no effect. Your problem remind me that I had experienced the same kind of trouble. I was using Qt for a project and drawing call was only effective inside the paintGL function. So drawing call made inside mouse and keyboard function had no effect at all even if I called updateGL. So I used a singleton class that permit me to add new drawing object (singleton->addPrimitive(…)) in user input function. Inside my paintGL function I simply call singleton->draw().
So my advice here is to make only OpenGL drawing call inside the function defined by glutDisplayFunc(). I don’t know if glut documentation forbid explicitly drawing call outside the function defined by glutDisplayFunc() but it seem wise to do so.