Hey, I want to make an little window like the sort of thing used by Teamspeak/Ventrillo or Steam/xFire where a window can be shown while still in a fullscreen game using Java. There was a similar question/answer ("How to create an overlay window in Java?") but that doesn't work for the particular game (EVE) whereas the previously mentioned overlays work just fine. What's the missing element? Or is it an entirely different method?
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One part of the solution might be to become part of the application itself. You can get your class loaded into any Java application by means of the Java Accessibility API.
Dark Falcon
2010-03-18 01:28:54
Alas, EVE isn't written in Java
kibibu
2010-03-18 01:38:18
If only. A little more research and it looks like it's DirectX's handiwork in the examples, but I'm still at a loss of how to do it in Java.
seurimas
2010-03-18 02:24:39
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Actually, doing some more searching and a lot more fiddling, I've discovered that a great deal of what I require for my prospective program simply isn't possible in Java. I do believe I'll be jumping over to C++.
seurimas
2010-03-18 03:51:46