Can you create OpenGL context without opening a window?

Question

Occassionally I hit places where I\'d want to get an OpenGL framebuffer object, but where I\'m not interested about opening a window of any kind.

Is it possible to c

Answer 1

Yes! you can use the desktop window as the window passed to OpenGL- as long as you don't try to display anything on it ;)

Just Call GetDesktopWindow and pass the result as an argument when creating new OpenGL window.