Magnum::Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication class
#include <Magnum/Platform/WindowlessGlxApplication.h>

Windowless GLX application.

Application for offscreen rendering using WindowlessGlxContext. Available on desktop OpenGL and OpenGL ES using GLX on Linux.

Bootstrap application

Fully contained windowless application using WindowlessGlxApplication along with CMake setup is available in base-windowless branch of Magnum Bootstrap repository, download it as tar.gz or zip file. After extracting the downloaded archive you can build and run the application with these four commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
./src/MyApplication # or ./src/Debug/MyApplication

See Usage with CMake for more information.

General usage

This application library depends on the X11 library and is built if MAGNUM_WITH_WINDOWLESSGLXAPPLICATION is enabled when building Magnum. To use this library from CMake, you need to request the WindowlessGlxApplication component of the Magnum package and link to the Magnum::WindowlessGlxApplication target:

find_package(Magnum REQUIRED)
if(CORRADE_TARGET_UNIX)
    find_package(Magnum REQUIRED WindowlessGlxApplication)
endif()

# ...
if(CORRADE_TARGET_UNIX)
    target_link_libraries(your-app PRIVATE Magnum::WindowlessGlxApplication)
endif()

Additionally, if you're using Magnum as a CMake subproject, do the following before calling find_package() to ensure it's enabled, as the library is not built by default:

set(MAGNUM_WITH_WINDOWLESSGLXAPPLICATION ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
add_subdirectory(magnum EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)

If no other application is requested, you can also use the generic Magnum::WindowlessApplication alias to simplify porting. Again, see Downloading and building and Usage with CMake for more information.

Place your code into exec(). The subclass can be then used directly in main() — see convenience macro MAGNUM_WINDOWLESSGLXAPPLICATION_MAIN(). See Platform support for more information.

class MyApplication: public Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication {
    // implement required methods...
};
MAGNUM_WINDOWLESSGLXAPPLICATION_MAIN(MyApplication)

If no other application header is included, this class is also aliased to Platform::WindowlessApplication and the macro is aliased to MAGNUM_WINDOWLESSAPPLICATION_MAIN() to simplify porting.

Public types

struct Arguments: Application arguments.
using Configuration = WindowlessGlxContext::Configuration: Configuration.

Constructors, destructors, conversion operators

WindowlessGlxApplication(const Arguments& arguments, const Configuration& configuration = Configuration{}) explicit: Default constructor.
WindowlessGlxApplication(const Arguments& arguments, NoCreateT) explicit: Constructor.
WindowlessGlxApplication(const WindowlessGlxApplication&) deleted: Copying is not allowed.
WindowlessGlxApplication(WindowlessGlxApplication&&) deleted: Moving is not allowed.

Public functions

auto operator=(const WindowlessGlxApplication&) -> WindowlessGlxApplication& deleted: Copying is not allowed.
auto operator=(WindowlessGlxApplication&&) -> WindowlessGlxApplication& deleted: Moving is not allowed.
auto exec() -> int pure virtual: Execute application.
auto glContext() -> GLXContext new in 2020.06: Underlying OpenGL context.

Protected functions

void createContext(const Configuration& configuration = Configuration()): Create context with given configuration.
auto tryCreateContext(const Configuration& configuration) -> bool: Try to create context with given configuration.

Typedef documentation

typedef WindowlessGlxContext::Configuration Magnum::Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication::Configuration

Configuration.

Function documentation

Magnum::Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication::WindowlessGlxApplication(const Arguments& arguments, const Configuration& configuration = Configuration{}) explicit

Default constructor.

Parameters
arguments	Application arguments
configuration	Configuration

Creates application with default or user-specified configuration. See Configuration for more information. The program exits if the context cannot be created, see tryCreateContext() for an alternative.

Magnum::Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication::WindowlessGlxApplication(const Arguments& arguments, NoCreateT) explicit

Constructor.

Parameters
arguments	Application arguments

Unlike above, the context is not created and must be created later with createContext() or tryCreateContext().

int Magnum::Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication::exec() pure virtual

Execute application.

Returns	Value for returning from `main()`

See MAGNUM_WINDOWLESSGLXAPPLICATION_MAIN() for usage information.

GLXContext Magnum::Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication::glContext() new in 2020.06

Underlying OpenGL context.

Use in case you need to call GLX functionality directly or in order to create a shared context. Returns nullptr in case the context was not created yet.

void Magnum::Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication::createContext(const Configuration& configuration = Configuration()) protected

Create context with given configuration.

Must be called if and only if the context wasn't created by the constructor itself. Error message is printed and the program exits if the context cannot be created, see tryCreateContext() for an alternative.

bool Magnum::Platform::WindowlessGlxApplication::tryCreateContext(const Configuration& configuration) protected

Try to create context with given configuration.

Unlike createContext() returns false if the context cannot be created, true otherwise.