Device & Rendering Context

[hannibar]

I'm making an app which opens multiple windows at the same time. In all windows I want to draw using openGL. This works mostly, but I don't understand a few things though. I've searched on the msdn, but I couldn't get a straight and understandable answer to my questions. So I hope someone here could help me.

1) Do I have to make 1 rendering context for all windows ?
2) Do I have to make 1 device context for all windows ?

Or 1 DC and RC for each window ?

Thanks in advance.

[kirants]

OO way would be to use seperate DCs for each window.
I don't know about RCs.

[Mike Harnad]

A rendering context (rc) is associated with a dc. If all of your windows have the same pixel format (they probably do), then you can define one rendering context and use it with each dc that represents a window. You'll need to use wglMakeCurrent() to do the association.

[hannibar]

Thanks for the help. I've got it working.

[Marc G]

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