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RGFW Under the Hood: OpenGL Context Creation

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By wglDelete Context, Uint N MaxFormats
| DEV Community
Tutorial for creating an accelerated opengl context for X11, Windows, and MacOS. Based on my project: RGFW. Introduction In my experience working on RGFW, one of the most annoying parts of working with low-level APIs is creating an OpenGL context. This is not because it's hard, but because there are many not-so-obvious steps that you must do correctly to create your OpenGL context.
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The Role of WGL Functions of OpenGL Rendering onto Microsoft Windows

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By int iFormat, HDC hDC, wglDelete Context
| The Code Project
This post will share my discovery on all functions named as wglxxxx in header file. Surprisingly, I found the complete list of these WGL functions[3] in header file. A Question When we adventure into OpenGL land, as Microsoft developers, we will run into a natural question: how can we use our MFC & Win32 skillsets? With the help of WGL functions(Wrangler library), through framebuffer, we can hangle Win32/MFC windows onto OpenGL layer. Here is my understanding of complete process flow.
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The role of WGL functions of rendering onto Microsoft Windows

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By int iFormat, HDC hDC, wglDelete Context
| The Code Project
This post will share my discovery on all functions named as wglxxxx in header file. Surprisingly, I found the complete list of these WGL functions[3] in header file. Introduction As we know, starting an OpenGL project in Visual Studio needs OpenGL core library and GLU library. These two libaries are in OpenGL32.lib and glu32.lib and distributed with current Visual Studio 2017 for example.
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