OSD Please Help

Hy guys!

First of all: My English is bad.

I want to write an OSD that overlapps everything i mean really everything. I want it for helpful use in Games so it have to overlap an active DirectX9 Application everything is there Keyboard shortcuts works but i realy don't know how to overlapp an Fullscreen Running Game... so please help me

thx




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OSD Please Help

  • vserd

    I'd suggest the DX forums would be the best place to ask about this. I'll move it there.



  • Vretare

    If tryed it on an other PC then the error message is:

    CURRENTLYNOTAVAILEBLE



  • Dan Konigsbach

    You can find a cool overlay sample using DirectDraw here.
    http://nexe.gamedev.net/directKnowledge/


  • xhydra

    First of all thanx for the help but if i try to make the overlay visible (radio buttons) the app crashes causing:

    Faild to initialize the overlay manager: Error in the application. -2005532537 (DDERR_INVALIDPIXELFORMAT)

    why did the error happen



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