Reverting the view SDL

Question

So in my SDL application, which I setup for OpenGL, if I were to do the following code:

glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex2i(0, 0);
glVertex2i(50, 0);
glVertex2i(50, 50);
glVertex2i(0, 50);
glEnd();

The quad shows up on my right hand side of my screen. I tried to use glOrtho but that didn't work for some reason. What happend?

Answer 1

The problem seems to be because you are treating (0, 0) as the bottom left; in OpenGL (0, 0) is the center of the screen.

To say this is counter-intuitive is silly, it is fully your opinion to say so.

I presume you have a 50x50 window you are trying to fill?

To get your desired behaviour you would need the following:

glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex2i(-1, -1); // bottom left
glVertex2i( 1, -1); // bottom right
glVertex2i( 1,  1); // top right
glVertex2i(-1,  1); // top left
glEnd();

and a diagram

(-1, 1)--------------------------(1, 1)

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-----------------(0,0)-----------------

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(-1,-1)------------------------(1, -1)