psychopy.tools.gltools.getOpenGLInfo

psychopy.tools.gltools.getOpenGLInfo()[source]

Get general information about the OpenGL implementation on this machine. This should provide a consistent means of doing so regardless of the OpenGL interface we are using.

Returns are dictionary with the following fields:

vendor, renderer, version, majorVersion, minorVersion, doubleBuffer,
maxTextureSize, stereo, maxSamples, extensions

Supported extensions are returned as a list in the ‘extensions’ field. You can check if a platform supports an extension by checking the membership of the extension name in that list.

Return type:

OpenGLInfo


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