WGL or Wiggle is an API between
OpenGL and the windowing system interface of
Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ser ...
. WGL is analogous to
EGL, which is an interface between rendering APIs such as OpenCL, OpenGL, OpenGL ES or OpenVG and the native platform, as well as to
CGL, which is the
OS X interface to OpenGL.
See also
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CGL – the equivalent
OS X interface to OpenGL
*
GLX
GLX (initialism for "OpenGL Extension to the X Window System") is an extension to the X Window System core protocol providing an interface between OpenGL and the X Window System as well as extensions to OpenGL itself. It enables programs wishing ...
– the equivalent
X11
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wi ...
interface to OpenGL
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EGL – a similar interface between to
OpenGL ES
OpenGL for Embedded Systems (OpenGL ES or GLES) is a subset of the OpenGL computer graphics rendering application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics such as those used by video games, typically hardware-accele ...
and
OpenVG
OpenVG is an application programming interface, API designed for Hardware acceleration, hardware-accelerated 2D computer graphics, 2D vector graphics. Its primary computing platform, platforms are mobile phones, gaming & media consoles and consume ...
and a
windowing system
In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is software that manages separately different parts of display screens. It is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) which implements the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm fo ...
; used by
Wayland
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GLUT – a higher level interface that hides the differences between WGL, GLX, etc.
External links
WGL functions
3D graphics software
Application programming interfaces
OpenGL
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