Simple OpenGL texture map not working?

Question

I\'m trying to figure out texture mapping in OpenGL and I can\'t get a simple example to work.

The polygon is being drawn, though it\'s not textured but just a soli

Answer 1

In addition to mentat's note that you might have a problem with non-power-of-two texture dimensions, you mention the texture name generation not changing the name.

That sounds as if you're calling glGenTextures() too early, i.e. before initializing OpenGL. If you're not, then I suggest adding code just after the call to glGenTextures() that check the OpenGL error state, by calling glGetError().