Windows Mode OpenGL

OpenGL OpenGL: Advanced Coding
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Ok… I’m pretty sure this isn’t an opengl question as much as just a windows question, but I’m goina ask anyway. I have my opengl stuff all ready and I want to use it in windows mode instead of full screen, so I want a file menu and all that nice stuff, therefore I made a .rc file. And I have my menu and my dialog box and what not. So how do I make it so when it starts up it uses my dialog box, cause right now it just uses the main windows thing, but it does show the menu. I think it has to do with these lines, but I dunno how to change them… if my dialog box is called “IDR_MENU1”. Here’s the code I think needs changing

dwExStyle=WS_EX_APPWINDOW | WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE;

dwStyle=WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW;

Any help would be much appreciated

2

try this possibly:

wc.lpszMenuName = MAKEINTRESOURCE (IDR_MENU1);

3

You can set the menu bar by inserting the bold call into your window class code.

WNDCLASS wc;
…
wc.lpszMenuName = MAKEINTRESOURCE(…);
…
RegisterClass(&wc);

Displaying a dialog box instead of a window when the application starts is more complicated. I suggest you to read a book on windows programming.

Greetings
Overmind

4

If you want a windowed OgenGL with all the the typical windows goodies you might consider MFC if you have a VC++ compiler.

And if you haven’t ruled out MFC, you might take a look at
http://www.mfcogl.com/

to get you started.