Lwjgl 3, How to get OpenGL context current in the current thread?

Question

I am using OpenGL in LWJGL 3 and I get the following error;

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: There is no OpenGL context current in the current thread.
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL.getCapabilities(GL.java:157)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.getInstance(GL11.java:1390)
    at org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.glClearColor(GL11.java:1842)
    at com.base.engine.RenderUtil.initGraphics(RenderUtil.java:13)
    at com.base.engine.Main.<init>(Main.java:14)
    at com.base.engine.Main.main(Main.java:24)

This is the RenderUtil class where initGraphics is called from the constructor of my main class. I have also tried to call initGraphics after creating a window with GLFW which has also generated a similar error message.

    package com.base.engine;
    
    import static org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.*;
    import static org.lwjgl.opengl.GL30.*;
    
    public class RenderUtil {
    
        public static void clearScreen() {
            glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
        }
    
        public static void initGraphics() {
            glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
    
            glFrontFace(GL_CW);
            glCullFace(GL_BACK);
            glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE);
            glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
    
            glEnable(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_SRGB);
        }
    }

Also, I am not using multithreading. To create a window I call the method Window.createWindow(1366, 768, "Test"); from my main method. ``` private static Long window;

    public static String createWindow(int width, int height, String title) {
        if (GLFW.glfwInit() == 0) {
            return "GLFW failed to initialise.";
        }

        GLFW.glfwWindowHint(GLFW.GLFW_SAMPLES, 4);
        window = GLFW.glfwCreateWindow(width, height, title,
                GLFW.glfwGetPrimaryMonitor(), 0);

        if (window == null) {
            GLFW.glfwTerminate();
            return "Failed to create window.";
        }

        GLFW.glfwMakeContextCurrent(window);
        return "GLFW has established a window.";
    }

I have tried putting `RenderUtil.initGraphics();` two different position in my main method, both resulting in errors.

        private boolean isRunning = false;
        private Game game;
    

        // This is the constructor
        public Main() {
            // Pos 1 - RenderUtil.initGraphics();
            isRunning = false;
            game = new Game();
        }

        public static void main(String[] args) {
            System.out.println(Window.createWindow(1366, 768, "Test"));
            // Pos 2 - RenderUtil.initGraphics();
            Main game = new Main();
            game.start();
        }

Solution

Add a call to GLContext.createFromCurrent() at the end of the createWindow method.

This method is needed to set the context used by the LWJGL GL** classes under the hood.

EDIT:

Since the latest nightly (3.0.0b #11) this no longer works, as the GLContext class no more exists. Instead, add GL.createCapabilities() at the end of the createWindow method.

Comments

[Andon M. Coleman]

It should already be current unless you created your context in a different thread. Nevertheless, each window system has its own ...MakeCurrent function to do this. LWJGL is no different, GLContext.makeCurrent (long) wraps the platform specific stuff.

[Reto Koradi]

Can you show the code where you create your window and context?

[derhass]

@Jack: seeing your main would be interesting, too.

[Jack]

Ok, I added that in above.

[user2084865]

That is not helpful, the official example gives the same error for me. It isn't compilable even with latest lwjgl (3.0.0a build 1)...

[javac]

@user2084865 The website already uses the new API of the beta version, see the edit of the other answer.

[user2084865]

Yep, that solved it for me. Tried it already, but anyways, thanks ;-)

[Kaiser Keister]

The original post has a "java" tag, so why is your useless answer in Kotlin?