[ContextHandle] In Place of Deprecated 'Handle' ?

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Hello,

Trying to get the hWnd (on Windows) of an OpenGLSurface using Me.Handle I get this warning:
“Handle is deprecated. You should use ContextHandle instead”

There is currently no mention of ‘ContextHandle’ in the documentation however there is two times ‘Handle’. Should I presume ContextHandle is in fact one of those two and is:
“This is the OpenGL context identifier.”, what we usually call hDC ?

And ‘Handle’ returns the hWnd as usual, although I’m not sure why it would be deprecated in this case ?

Cheers,
Guy.

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Actualy I guess ContextHandle returns hGLRC, not hDC.

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OpenGLSurface’s Handle property was deprecated because it was shadowing RectControl’s Handle property, which lead to some nastiness:

Dim surface As OpenGLSurface = ... Dim h1 As Integer = surface.Handle // this is an HGLRC Dim h2 As Integer = RectControl(surface).Handle // this is an HWND

ContextHandle was introduced to make it somewhat better and hopefully lead to eventually being able to remove OpenGLSurface’s old Handle property.

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That clears things up.

Thanks Joe.