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

[Phil Thompson]

On 4 Oct 2016, at 5:57 am, John Ladasky <john_ladasky at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> 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:
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>>> And as you can see: trying to call versionFunctions() is exactly where my program failed.
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>> Try passing a QOpenGLVersionProfile object to versionFunctions() that has a version set to one supported by PyQt.
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> Hi Phil,
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> 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.
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> 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.

QOpenGLVersonProfile missing from the docs is a bug.

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

If you are an OpenGL expert then you could help a lot by answering my questions about how individual functions should be bound.

Phil