Drawing a black square and a white square & taking priority

Hello guys(@Unwinder & @mbk1969 =P),

I'm am plugging away on project using RTSS and I need a bit of help understanding the "hypertext" used by the OverlayEditor feature.

From your SharedMemorySample I've created a function that will draw a black box on the screen:

Code:

void CSysLat_SoftwareDlg::DrawBlack(CRTSSClient sysLatClient)
{
    sysLatClient.UpdateOSD("<C=80000000><B=0,0>\b<C><E=-1,-1,8><C=000000><I=-2,0,384,384,128,128><C>");
}

I ripped the string straight out of the OverlayEditor once I was able to find an option where I could draw a white/black box so to be honest I have no idea what it's actually doing. I think it's using a "blank" corner of some static image...
I also have some other problems with it such as:

1. Is it possible to set BaseColor, BgndColor, and FillColor colors individually "per client"?
2. Is it possible to set the opacity of those same 3 items from a sharedMemory app?
3. Is there a way to claim priority over other apps using RTSS(such as Afterburner) so I can claim the corners? I'm setting the "dwEntry" var to 0 in the "UpdateOSD()" function, but I feel like there's also a way to use absolute coordinates in the string to make sure I'm taking over a corner...

I've got several other questions I could bombard you with, but I'll try and figure them out on my own if I can get some answers to these.

Thanks!

 

@Skewjo
You have to use "@" with user name to attract him...

 

Thank you sir. Does that functionality work when you edit a post? <.<
If it doesn't, I'll just wait patiently until he sees it I think lol

 

Looks like it does not with editing.
Can you imagine the amount of notifications Unwinder gets when he logs in...

Do you have a documentation on RTSS overlay, API? I was avoiding that but if you can`t rule that out, I can dive in to help you...

 

Well, there's the "C:\Program Files (x86)\RivaTuner Statistics Server\Doc\ReadMe.pdf" file that you get access to when you install RTSS, but a quick glance through it doesn't really yield what I think I'm looking for.

 

Send it to me via e-mail.

 

Awesome, thanks for the response @Unwinder.

I believe the reason I began using the embedded image from the font texture is because the hypertext is appearing in the box(though this is probably from some dumb modification I made to the UpdateOSD() function...)

Here's a pic: https://imgur.com/a/59dFJjx

Also, is there any way an "opaque"(I think this is the word I'm looking for) black vs the "semitransparent black"?
Nevermind... I somehow missed where you said "<C=000000>" is opaque black. Whoops.

 

Awesome, removing the spaces fixed it, and the opacity settings allow me to leave the BaseColor, BgndColor, and FillColor settings alone.

I'm a little confused on the sizing. I believe you said that the setting "<E=-1,-1,8>" makes it so that the box will be treated as 1 by 1 symbol(and I also guessed that it would make it align right, but I'm not so sure about that any more) which I believe is what I want, as <B=-1,-1> is a rectangle half of the square size and shape I wanted.

I believe I was using the following previously to get around the sizing/justification issue:

(referring to "<B=0,0>" I believe.)

Sorry if this is too long-winded. Here are my questions. Feel free to tell me to frig-off if you think I should be able to figure them out on my own:

1. Is there a way to align my box left/right or up/down relative to other OSD clients?
2. I assumed <B=1,1> would be equivalent to <B=-1,-1>, but I guess a "B-tag" doesn't represent the size of a 1-by-1 symbol? I think I've resolved this issue by using <B=10,10>.
3. Is there a way to retrieve the current corner and the X and Y coordinates via the RTSSSharedMemory interface? Took a quick look and didn't see them(or I didn't know what I was looking for). I feel like these options should be what I want: CoordinateSpace, PositionX, PositionY

 

Thanks again for all of the answers, and thanks for reminding me about the <P> tag. I think I can use that and the <E> tag (nevermind... I think I just figured out that the <E> tag only affects images... right?) in combination with the profile API command for "active corner" to reposition the box so that it always appears in the corner of the screen.

I think this will be my last question for a while: Can you provide me with that API command to control the corner? I found the following documented in the RTSSProfileInterface class, but(AFAIK) none of them look like what I need.

Code:

        //The following properties are available:
        //AppDetectionLevel                        0..3    - Application detection level
        //Implementation                        0..1    - On-Screen Display rendering mode
        //EnableFloatingInjectionAddress        0..1    - Stealth mode
        //EnableDynamicOffsetDetection            0..1    - Custom Direct3D support
        //FramerateLimit                        ....    - Framerate limit
        //FontWeight                            ....    - font weight for Raster3D On-Screen Display rendering mode
        //FontFace                                string    - font face (e.g. "Tahoma") for Raster3D On-Screen Display rendering mode
        //EnableOSD                                0..1    - On-Screen Display support
        //EnableBgnd                            0..1    - On-Screen Display shadow
        //EnableStat                            ....    - Show own statistics
        //BaseColor, BgndColor                    ....    - On-Screen Display palette
        //PositionX, PositionY                    ....    - On-Screen Display position
        //ZoomRatio                                1..8    - On-Screen Display zoom
        //CoordinateSpace                        0..1    - On-Screen Display coordinate space

 

OHHHH, I think I got it. I probably would've seen that if I would've played around with PositionX and PositionY...

I'm feeling pretty damn stupid here, but I'm still not wrapping my head around what the <E> tag does... does it only affect images?

 

Ok, that's what I thought! ...but it's just not behaving as I expected. The behavior I'm wanting is for my black/white box to take over the corner.

So if the "RTSS origin" is the bottom right corner, and I set the extent of the box using this string "<C=000000><B=10,10><C><E=-1,-1,8>", my black box should display in the bottom right, correct?

As far as I can tell, adding that <E> tag there doesn't seem to do anything for me: https://imgur.com/a/BDwInEh

To clarfiy, I'd like the black square to align to the bottom right corner(by either appearring over the end of the word "STUFF" or by taking over that slot and pushing "STUFF" up, but that's an OSD slot issue and not an extent issue I believe).

 

Sorry dude! Thanks for all of your help.