[vtkusers] wglCreateContext failed in CreateAWindow(), error: 0

[Mark Wyszomierski]

Hi again Ingo,

I was trying the MFC sample and it produced the errors - the drivers
on that particular machine must have been really out of date because
no opengl apps were running! After I updated the drivers everything
worked fine. This was an nvidia fx go 5200 board.

I wonder then, is there any VTK function, or opengl function I can use
at application startup to see if the user's drivers are up to date /
their graphics board is comaptible and prompt them right away if there
is a problem, rather than the vtk debugger window giving them the bad
news?

Thanks!
Mark

On 7/25/05, de Boer Ingo <I.deBoer at polytec.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> did you try the MFC samples from the CVS ?
> They should do.
> 
> greets
>  Ingo
> 
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> Dr.-Ing. Ingo H. de Boer
> 
> Polytec GmbH
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vtkusers-bounces+i.deboer=polytec.de at vtk.org
> > [mailto:vtkusers-bounces+i.deboer=polytec.de at vtk.org]On Behalf Of Mark
> > Wyszomierski
> > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:14 PM
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Subject: [vtkusers] wglCreateContext failed in
> > CreateAWindow(), error: 0
> >
> >
> > I'm having more problems with the MFC sample application on a single
> > user's machine. As soon as I try creating a render view I start
> > getting this message in the debugger:
> >
> > ERROR: In .\vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 824
> > vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow (02FA7E60): wglCreateContext failed in
> > CreateAWindow(), error: 0
> >
> > And nothing can be drawn. Now earlier I had another wgl error with the
> > sample on some machines with ATI cards, but explicitly calling
> > Finalize() on the render window when the window closed cured that
> > problem. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
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