Interface IBindingsContext

Provides methods for querying available functions in a bindings context.

Namespace: OpenTK

Assembly: OpenTK.Core.dll

Syntax

public interface IBindingsContext

Remarks

If you wish to use OpenTK OpenGL bindings in a custom environment see the example for a tutorial on its usage.

Examples

In order to use this interface, you need to figure out how to load OpenGL function pointers in your custom environment. For example, if you are providing a custom window using SDL, you would use the C function SDL_GL_GetProcAddress to implement this interface.

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using OpenTK;
using OpenTK.Graphics.OpenGL4;

public class MySDLBindingsContext : IBindingsContext
{
    public IntPtr GetProcAddress(string procName)
    {
        [DllImport("SDL2")]
        extern static IntPtr SDL_GL_GetProcAddress([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string procName);

        return SDL_GL_GetProcAddress(procName);
    }
}

/// ...

// In order to load the bindings, call the following function with this
// new class you implemented.
GL.LoadBindings(new MySDLBindingsContext());

Do note that every OpenTK.Graphics.XXX namespace has its own pointer table. If you have mixed and matched the namespaces used in your project, you might run into exceptions telling you that the bindings are not loaded.

Methods

GetProcAddress(string)

Retrieves an unmanaged function pointer to the specified function on the specified bindings context.

Declaration

nint GetProcAddress(string procName)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	procName	An ASCII-encoded string that defines the name of the function.

Returns

Type	Description
nint	A nint that contains the address of procName or IntPtr.Zero, if the function is not supported by the drivers.

Remarks

Note: some drivers are known to return non-zero values for unsupported functions. Typical values include 1 and 2 - inheritors are advised to check for and ignore these values.