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Started by ManTis September 16, 2004 08:42 AM

4 comments, last by PinguinDude 19 years, 7 months ago

ManTis

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September 16, 2004 08:42 AM

Hi, I'm new to game tools design, and I'd like to know if there is any tutorial online that can show me how to join windows icons/menus/tabs with OpenGL (like in 3d Studio, or some game editors like UT editor) Thanks in advance, ManTis.

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Maega

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September 16, 2004 09:00 AM

You just need to give OpenGL a context to render to. You can put this inside your window where you want it :). It's simple.

ManTis

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September 16, 2004 09:13 AM

damn... so far I've only developed under FreeBSD and i hate this window context thingies :P

it's like: i create a child window inside my application, and get it's context and render to it, right? or wrong?

seen any (even simplest) code on net? I've just to see it done and I'll get it ;P

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Maega

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September 16, 2004 09:17 AM

Quote:Original post by EliteWarriorManTis
it's like: i create a child window inside my application, and get it's context and render to it, right? or wrong?

You got the right idea

ManTis

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September 16, 2004 09:30 AM

I've found great link. If anybody will be having the same problem:

http://home.planet.nl/~monstrous/tutMFC.html
(How to make an MFC application with an OpenGL viewport)

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PinguinDude

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September 16, 2004 09:38 AM

It may be a good idea not to use MFC :o It's really harder then WinAPI.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pingux/ <-- you know you wanna see my 2D Engine which supports DirectX and OpenGL or insert your renderer here :)