OpenGL on Windows

The Microsoft implementation of OpenGL in the Microsoft Windows operating system is an implementation of the industry-standard OpenGL three-dimensional (3-D) graphics software interface with which programmers create high-quality still and animated 3-D color images. This overview describes the Windows implementation of OpenGL.

For information about OpenGL ES running on Windows, see MSOpenTech ANGLE.

• Guide To Documentation
• Components
• Generic Implementation and Hardware Implementations
• Rendering Contexts
• Pixel Formats
• Front, Back, and Other Buffers
• Fonts and Text
• OpenGL Color Modes and Windows Palette Management
• Overlay, Underlay, and Main Planes
• Sharing Display Lists
• Extending OpenGL Functions
• GLX and WGL/Windows
• Using OpenGL on Windows
• Reference for Windows Extensions to OpenGL