I want to develop a tool which can render content over current window. The window maybe a full screen game and the game may be developed with dx or opengl etc. I know that I can create a dll and inject the destination window with different APIs accroding to different game engines. But that's a little complex and the compatibility is not good for all engines. Is there any way to realize it? I noticed this link:https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=359319 but the download address is invalid now. Any help will be appreciated.
how to create a overlay on top of current games/apps
Depends on your platform. taking Windows as an example platform, there are WINAPI calls to get running processes and for every process to get a list of the windows contained by those processes. You can get the primary window of every game you like and attaching your overlay window to it as a child should work without any big trouble
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