GLUTCREATEWINDOW(3)

✨ NAME ✨

glutCreateWindow — create a brand new top-level window, bestie 💖

Okay so real quick, this whole page lives in the OpenGLUT manual, in the window section. Just so you know where you are. 🎀

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🦋 LIBRARY 🦋

OpenGLUT — window

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💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

#include <openglut.h>

int
glutCreateWindow(const char* title);

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🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

• title — the title for the window you're creating. Like, the text on the little bar. That one. 💖

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So what this does is it sends a request for a window to be constructed. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

But here's the tea: OpenGLUT does not sit around waiting for the window manager to text back. Nope. It immediately constructs a data structure to track further events with the window, working on the theory that eventually the window manager will get back to us with a real, actual window. And that's lowkey genius, because it means you can start registering callbacks right away. No waiting. Slay. ✨

Not me reminding you: you must register a display callback via glutDisplayFunc() before you enter glutMainLoop(). Like, this is not optional, bestie. It's a must. Do not skip it. 😭

Also for onscreen windows? Do not depend upon the window concretely existing or being visible until you are actually told that it exists and is visible via a registered callback. She's not there until she says she's there. Periodt. 💅

The return value is an int. It should be positive for valid windows, or 0 if failure occurred for some reason. (Though traditional GLUT tends to bail out and abort rather than returning errors, which is... a choice. 💀)

That integer? That's your window id. Old GLUT promises that these integers are `small` — cute of them. We do not reuse old ids, but we do produce them sequentially. Fresh ids only, no recycling, we're not regifting. 🌈

And if you want to change the title later (you will, we all do), you can do that via glutSetWindowTitle(). Iconic. ⭐

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• glutDestroyWindow(3)
• glutCreateSubWindow(3)
• glutSetWindowTitle(3)
• glutCreateMenuWindow(3)

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Okay that's the whole page, go forth and make windows, main character energy only. 🧚

This page was dated UNDATED and the manual itself is titled UNTITLED() — yes really, no cap, that's genuinely what the footer says, and honestly? It's giving mysterious. 💜 🍓