Irrlicht Engine

I guess that leaves me with two questions then.

Is the GL context still set after createDeviceEx is called?

I'm writing platform independent code where I want to be able to get the full vendor string and put it into a native UI element.

I have found that I can access GL_VENDOR using irrDevice->getVideoDriver()->getVendorInfo().c_str()

Is it possible to do something like this using GL_RENDERER? Looking ...