# NSOpenGLView and GLFW
**URL:** https://discourse.glfw.org/t/nsopenglview-and-glfw/824
**Category:** support
**Created:** [December 15, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/nsopenglview-and-glfw/824 "2016-12-15T17:14:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@SpacedCowboy](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/SpacedCowboy)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/nsopenglview-and-glfw/824/1 "2016-12-15T17:14:49Z")
Newbie question: Reading the docs, it’s all about creating OpenGL windows and going from there, but on my Mac app, I really want to have a NIB with an NSOpenGLView in it, so I can bind things to the application, and then somehow get GLFW to use the context (and pixel format ?) provided by the NSOpenGLView.
To expand on that: specifically, there is a host application which loads many plugins. One of the plugins is a 3D plot window, and I’d like to make that 3D plot window be based on OpenGL. The plugin is loaded on demand, and can provide an NSView to the host application - so Ideally I’d like to provide an NSView containing an NSOpenGLView, that the plugin can manipulate using GLFW, if that’s possible.
Is it possible to combine these together ? I see references to NSOpenGLView in the changelog, but if it’s in the docs somewhere, I’m missing it ☹
Cheers
Simon
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### Author:  [@dougbinks](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/dougbinks)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/nsopenglview-and-glfw/824/2 "2016-12-15T17:33:21Z")
GLFW is designed for platform independent window creation and input / event handling for OpenGL and Vulkan. If you’re window is being created elsewhere you likely just want to use OpenGL and native event/input handling.
However if you want to make the window using GLFW you can get hold of the platform information you need using the [native access functions](http://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/group__native.html).