Windowsless (offscreen) context

sasmaster wrote on Wednesday, July 31, 2013:

Hi Guys.Several month ago,when GLFW3 was still under dev I asked if it’s possible to init windowless context.The answer I got was :“Will be possible in GLFW3”. So does GLFW3 contains such an option?

Thanks!

elmindreda wrote on Wednesday, July 31, 2013:

No, but you can create a hidden window, which will work effectively the same way.

sasmaster wrote on Wednesday, July 31, 2013:

That is what I am currently doing.But I hoped to get rid of it with the new GLFW…

marcel_metz wrote on Wednesday, July 31, 2013:

Michael, certain platforms (Windows) require a window associated with the context. This is by design of the opengl context implementation of said platforms and can’t be circumvented by GLFW.