Greets,
I’m working on an open-source game project which uses SDL & OpenGL. I’m
just about to get something to display on screen (won’t that be nice?)
but nothing shows up, so I thought I’d step through my source code and
see what’s happenning.
I noticed that the way I have it right now, I’m initializing the SDL
video system, setting up some basic OpenGL states, i.e.:
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST), etc… and then setting the video mode. Now,
under windows, I’d need to set screen resolution before I could get a
rendering context, which probably means none of my OpenGL setup is
affecting anything…
So the question is this: can I start making opengl calls before getting
an SDL_Surface and expect it to have an effect, or should I be setting
the resolution and THEN performing OpenGL setup?
I realize this probably will not allow me to see my geometry, but I’d
like to think I’m heading off problems down the road.
Many thanks,
– Jeff Duncan
thaellin at bigfoot.com