[LWJGL] Best way to notify user of OpenGL init error

OpenGL Development
#1

What’s the best cross-platform way to signify an “unsupported hardware” error when trying to create a Display context? Say I set ContextAttribs to OpenGL 3.3 but the driver only has 3.2 support. How can I notify the user about this in a nice way i.e. not using System.err.println(). AWT messagebox? Or Swing? Or does LWJGL have a built-in method?

#2 

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Yo shit's broke man.");

;D

#3

That’s Swing yeah? Ok, if that’s the way to do it I’ll do it.

#4

LWJGL’s built in method

Sys.alert("Yo dawg", "Yo shit's broke man.")
#5

Ooh that looks nice. I shall use it forthwith.

#6

The problem with a null-parent JOptionPane is that it doesn’t show up with its own task bar item on Windows; so if the dialog doesn’t have focus you need to Alt + Tab to find it.

#7

Sweet, good to know!