PyQt5, OpenGL, where to start, minimal example code?

[John Ladasky]

On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 1:30:29 AM UTC-7, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On 3 Oct 2016, at 4:29 am, John Ladasky <j... at s...net> wrote:

> > And as you can see: trying to call versionFunctions() is exactly where my program failed.
> 
> Try passing a QOpenGLVersionProfile object to versionFunctions() that has a version set to one supported by PyQt.

Hi Phil,

I'm trying to follow your advice.  It's strange, "from PyQt5.QtGui import QOpenGLVersionProfile" works fine, and I can make an object of that type.

However: http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/ DOES NOT DOCUMENT QOpenGLVersionProfile.  I did find Qt documentation, at http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qopenglversionprofile.html.  I will investigate this issue further.  Sometimes it isn't obvious how the C++ constructors are wrapped in Python.

If I ever understand a GUI like PyQt5 well enough, I'd like to contribute to its documentation.  Sigh.