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Provides a virtual machine- and operating system-independent mechanism for creating {@link net.java.games.jogl.GLCanvas} and {@link net.java.games.jogl.GLJPanel} objects.
The {@link net.java.games.jogl.GLCapabilities} objects passed in to the various factory methods are used as a hint for the properties of the returned drawable. The default capabilities selection algorithm (equivalent to passing in a null {@link GLCapabilitiesChooser}) is described in {@link DefaultGLCapabilitiesChooser}. Sophisticated applications needing to change the selection algorithm may pass in their own {@link GLCapabilitiesChooser} which can select from the available pixel formats.
Because of the multithreaded nature of the Java platform's
window system toolkit, it is typically not possible to immediately
reject a given {@link GLCapabilities} as being unsupportable by
either returning null
from the creation routines or
raising a {@link GLException}. The semantics of the rejection
process are (unfortunately) left unspecified for now. The current
implementation will cause a {@link GLException} to be raised
during the first repaint of the {@link GLCanvas} or {@link
GLJPanel} if the capabilities can not be met.