Desktop App Overlay In-Game

Question

Desktop App Overlay In-Game

trymeouteh opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Please have the desktop apps on Windows and Linux allow for it to work in full screen games using an overlay, just like the Steam overlay.

Windows
MacOS
Linux (native games)
Linux (wine/proton games)

Matthew Booe · Answer 1 · Mon Jan 11 2021 01:09:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This would be very cool to get to, but it seems it would be very complicated. Even Discord has lots of limitations with it:

Note, there are a few other cases that overlay will not work with. The overlay is currently not supported for Mac, games with Vulkan support, and generally old games.

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That being said, I'd still like to attempt it eventually. Design reference for the future.

trymeouteh · Answer 2 · Sat Jan 16 2021 06:30:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I understand this will be hard, but amazing if it can be accomplished for desktop gamers.

trymeouteh · Answer 3 · Wed Jan 20 2021 00:58:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

#19

Here is an alternative that maybe better.

Caleb Jasik · Answer 4 · Tue Feb 09 2021 15:38:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Y'all might want to try to hook into https://github.com/trigg/Discover/ maybe? Or at least look at it for implementing an overlay on Linux

Matthew Booe · Answer 5 · Wed Feb 10 2021 09:51:43 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@jasikpark Oh thank you or for letting us know about Discover! Will certainly keep that in mind. Would certainly be nice to integrate with another project for the overlay