GLCanvas: Adding convenient constructor for GLCapabilties and Shared Context (with unit test)

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/awt/GLCanvas.java b/src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/awt/GLCanvas.java
index b230a2b6a..8b20b9ed1 100644
--- a/src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/awt/GLCanvas.java
+++ b/src/jogl/classes/javax/media/opengl/awt/GLCanvas.java
@@ -135,11 +135,24 @@ public class GLCanvas extends Canvas implements AWTGLAutoDrawable {
 
   /** Creates a new GLCanvas component with the requested set of
       OpenGL capabilities, using the default OpenGL capabilities
-      selection mechanism, on the default screen device. */
+      selection mechanism, on the default screen device. 
+   * @see GLCanvas#GLCanvas(javax.media.opengl.GLCapabilitiesImmutable, javax.media.opengl.GLCapabilitiesChooser, javax.media.opengl.GLContext, java.awt.GraphicsDevice)
+   */
   public GLCanvas(GLCapabilitiesImmutable capsReqUser) {
     this(capsReqUser, null, null, null);
   }
 
+  /** Creates a new GLCanvas component with the requested set of
+      OpenGL capabilities, using the default OpenGL capabilities
+      selection mechanism, on the default screen device.
+   *  This constructor variant also supports using a shared GLContext.
+   *
+   * @see GLCanvas#GLCanvas(javax.media.opengl.GLCapabilitiesImmutable, javax.media.opengl.GLCapabilitiesChooser, javax.media.opengl.GLContext, java.awt.GraphicsDevice)
+   */
+  public GLCanvas(GLCapabilitiesImmutable capsReqUser, GLContext shareWith) {
+    this(capsReqUser, null, shareWith, null);
+  }
+
   /** Creates a new GLCanvas component. The passed GLCapabilities
       specifies the OpenGL capabilities for the component; if null, a
       default set of capabilities is used. The GLCapabilitiesChooser