In OpenGL, how can I adjust for the window being resized?

Question

I am drawing several shapes (such as circles) that are keyed off of the window height & width. Since the window always starts at a given size, they are drawn correctly,

Answer 1

There are many methods to do that. Following example shows you how I'm doing it in my projects and its working. The example shows you simply a rectangle box which do not changes it size when window is resizing. You can directly copy and paste it in your project(consider that i'm a openGl beginner)

#include
#include

GLfloat x1=100.0f;
GLfloat y1=150.0f;
GLsizei rsize = 50;

GLfloat xstep=1.0f;
GLfloat ystep=1.0f;

GLfloat windowWidth;
GLfloat windowHeight;


void scene(void){
   glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
   glColor3f(1.0f,0.0f,0.0f);

   glRectf(x1,y1,x1+rsize,y1-rsize);

   glutSwapBuffers();
}

void setupRc(void){

  glClearColor(0.0f,0.0f,1.0f,0.0f);

}

void changeSize(GLsizei w,GLsizei h){
  if(h==0)
  h=1;
  glViewport(0,0,w,h);
  glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
  glLoadIdentity();
   if(w>=h){
     windowWidth=250.0f*w/h;
     windowHeight=250.f;
   }
   else{
     windowWidth=250.0f;
     windowHeight=250.f*h/w;
   } 

   glOrtho(0.0f,windowWidth,0.0f,windowHeight,1.0f,-1.0f);


   glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
   glLoadIdentity();


}




void main(void){

   glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGBA);

   glutCreateWindow("Rectangle");

   glutReshapeFunc(changeSize);
   glutDisplayFunc(scene);
   setupRc();

   glutMainLoop();

}