# How to put a vtkContextView into a QVTKOpenGLWidget

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-put-a-vtkcontextview-into-a-qvtkopenglwidget/4823
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-put-a-vtkcontextview-into-a-qvtkopenglwidget/4823 "2020-12-15T02:19:29Z")
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### Author: ![Carle](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Carle](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Carle)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-put-a-vtkcontextview-into-a-qvtkopenglwidget/4823/1 "2020-12-15T02:19:29Z")

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This is my first try using VTK in Qt, I almost copied the codes of VTKExamples/site/Cxx)/Plotting/LinePlot to my Qt program. but got an error “QVTKOpenGLNativeWidget requires a `vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow`. `vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow` is not supported” after click run. I recognized the reason is QVTKOpenGLWidget-\>SetRenderWindow need vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow type but vtkContextView-\>GetRenderWindow() return a vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow.  
Anybody can help me about this? I feel a little disappointed that I can’t find out the solution after going through google search…

Best,  
Carle

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### Author: ![Carle](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Carle](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Carle)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-put-a-vtkcontextview-into-a-qvtkopenglwidget/4823/2 "2020-12-15T02:40:57Z")

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oooooh, I find out the solution, just to create a vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow for them.