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that looks very nice.. you are running in windowed mode but it's still over the whole screen? how come? is the taskbar always visible like that?
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The taskbar only shows up when you have another window in the front. When you alt-tab back to WoW, it goes away and you only see WoW. So, you simply switch over to your browser, do what you want, and then switch back.
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You do know that 3d acceleration is better in full-screen mode, right? I think when it all started it wasn't even possible to run in windowed mode (didn't work)..
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I've seen no performance loss with running in Windowed mode. Runs very nicely and allows me to instantly view whatever other windows I want. Perhaps it wasn't always this way, but it works very nicely now.
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also, my monitor is pretty small so i don't want to waste any space =P
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I haven't found this to be an issue, seeing as how you're not sitting at those other windows 100% of the time. you switch over to them briefly to see what you need and switch back.
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i like it very much the way i made it now, much more than alt tabbing.
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there's always personal preference, and your window overlay is very well done. it looks very clean. As a programmer I can appreciate what you've created. I just think that, in terms of the original problem at hand, running in windowed mode and alt-tab'ing is more than sufficient and avoids the hooking and DLL injection business and the need for an .exe.
I do find the technique of overlaying on top of DirectX very interesting. I wrote an open-source utility called
TSDisp awhile back which uses the DLL injection/hooking to get itself into the
TeamSpeak process and provides a stay-on-top window to show the name of the current speaker. I only went as far as just making a Windows stay-on-top window, though, so for DirectX fullscreen mode it doesn't work. Granted, when running in windowed mode it works. I wanted to dig around and figure out how to get the window on top of the DirectX display, but haven't taken the time to figure that out yet.