Re: How to overlay text on a full screen game ?
Hi
On a purely theoretical level, it depends entirely on what library you are using
to implement this.
There are a couple of directx libraries (exotica, exoticax, directe) which have
examples
of this sort of thing
There's opengl, and there'e allegro - search the archives.
Basic principle in common with most of these libs, is that you have an area
of memory, which you use the required function to write the text to, then
you flip that (something like swap_buffers, flip etc) that area of memory
onto the screen memory. Its a lot faster to do it like this.
All gaming libs (AFAIK) have this in common.
Of course, if you're not talking about euphoria, then this is probably not
the best place for you.
Which library are you using?
Just reading your post again, are you wanting to write text onto a game that
has nothing to do with anything else, eg you're playing half life, and you
want "drop dead mf scumbag" et al to appear on the screen, put there by a
separate, disparate progeam. I don't think you can do this.
Chris
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