Posted by Matt on Oct 27, 2010; 3:57am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Is-it-possible-to-use-the-GLES1-profile-on-Windows-tp1778137.html

Hi all.  I am making a game for the Android platform, which uses OpenGL ES 1.1 (javax.microedition.khronos.opengles.GL11Ext).  During development, I'm using the same game engine to run on Windows because it's much easier to develop and debug that way.  For Android, I have an OpenGL renderer class, and in Windows I had a JPanel class which draws to a Canvas, but all of the game code comes from a shared source tree.

I'm not very familiar with OpenGL, and have been learning it recently.  I've just figured out about what the profiles mean.  Essentially I am mostly copying and pasting samples to draw the 2D graphics.  I decided that it would be better if I used OpenGL on Windows to be able to develop with the OpenGL methods much more efficiently.  I am using JOGL now, but I just recently ran into a problem... the profiles.

It turns out glDrawTexfOES is the way you draw 2D graphics in OpenGL ES 1.1, which is a method that only exists in the GLES1 profile and not the others.  But when I run the app on Windows, I get Exception in thread "main" javax.media.opengl.GLException: No implementation for profile GLES1 available when I call GLProfile.get(GLProfile.GLES1).

Does anyone know of a way to get this profile working in Windows?  I thought all the profiles ended up calling the same underlying methods internally.  I can see a com.jogamp.opengl.impl.es1.GLES1Impl in the libraries, although I understand that doesn't mean the drivers support it.  Perhaps someone can offer a workaround?