Drawing a line in Opengl not displaying C++ - c++

Question

I am trying to draw a line straight across my window The screen colour is working but the line doesn't seem to draw. I am fairly certain this is because I might of set the position wrong and the line is being clipped from the window but I'm not sure how to fix this.
my full code
#include <GL\glew.h>
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
#include <GL\glut.h>
#include <glm.hpp>
#include <GL\freeglut.h>
#include <GL\GL.h>
#include <IL/il.h>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int windowWidth = 1024, windowHeight = 1024;
if (!glfwInit())
return -1;
GLFWwindow* window;
window = glfwCreateWindow(windowWidth, windowHeight, "electroCraft", NULL, NULL);
glfwMakeContextCurrent(window); // stes the specified window as active INACTIVE SCREEN IF WINDOW NOT CURRENT!!!!
if (!window) {
glfwTerminate();
printf("Screen failed to start. ABORTING...\n");
return -1;
}
glViewport(0, 0, windowWidth, windowHeight);
glOrtho(0, windowWidth, 0, windowHeight, -1, 1);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window)) {
glClearColor(62.0f / 255.0f, 85.9f / 255.0f, 255.0 / 255.0, 0.0);
glClear(GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
//begin drawing
glBegin(GL_LINE);
glVertex2f(20, 100);
glVertex2f(600, 100);
glEnd();
glfwSwapBuffers(window);
glfwPollEvents();
}
glfwTerminate();
return 0;
}

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comment you've to use GL_LINES rather than GL_LINE, because GL_LINE is not a valid Primitive type.
glBegin(GL_LINES); // <----
glVertex2f(20, 100);
glVertex2f(600, 100);
glEnd();
But there is another issue. The default matrix mode is GL_MODELVIEW (see glMatrixMode), so the orthographic projection is set to the model view matrix and is overwritten by the identity matrix (glLoadIdentity). You've to set the matrix mode GL_PROJECTION, before glOrtho:
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); // <----
glOrtho(0, windowWidth, 0, windowHeight, -1, 1);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();