Hey Guys,
I recently wanted to make a way to put notifications in Big Picture Mode and other games I am playing.
My code of choice is Java.
I found this thread about drawing over applications, and it works well.
[url]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21604762/drawing-over-screen-in-java[/url]
My problem is that it doesn't work for fullscreen games and apps like GMOD and Big Picture Mode.
Can anyone recommend any Java code I'm missing?
Do I need a c++ dll to draw on screen with a Java wrapper? If so, I can't code that, I only know Java, could you code it in 5 minutes?
Thanks, much appreciated.
[QUOTE=BlueMustache;48671932]Hey Guys,
I recently wanted to make a way to put notifications in Big Picture Mode and other games I am playing.
My code of choice is Java.
I found this thread about drawing over applications, and it works well.
[url]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21604762/drawing-over-screen-in-java[/url]
My problem is that it doesn't work for fullscreen games and apps like GMOD and Big Picture Mode.
Can anyone recommend any Java code I'm missing?
Do I need a c++ dll to draw on screen with a Java wrapper? If so, I can't code that, I only know Java, could you code it in 5 minutes?
Thanks, much appreciated.[/QUOTE]
It's going to require DLL injection to modify the DirectX or OpenGL calls to render your text over the top of the game's rendering. Java can't do DLL injection so yes you need to use a native module written in C or similar to expose the required functionality to Java.
You will need to rewrite the instructions in the game to add jumps to your rendering code and then jump back to continue the rendering loop.
This is the same thing that steam, xfire, RTSS etc use to render their overlays and statistics on top of games.
As a much easier solution (where you don't need to change anything in code) you should be able to run the games in fullscreen windowed if they support it.
Good luck.
I can't write a wrapper. Oh well. I think making a steam bot, and then have people friend him, he could send notifications through the chat. Right ? My idea is making a skype overlay for steam big picture.
Won't a DLL Injection get you VAC banned
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