Is there a way to make my Irrlicht application always on top

[das heck]

Hi there,

the question is already in the title. So is there a way? I don't wanna create a Win32 Window like in Tutorial 14.

best regards heck

[Radikalizm]

I think there's a flag you can set for that during the window creating process, but that'd require you to edit the engine

I don't know if there's a way to achieve this externally

[slavik262]

That's a style you set during the creation of the window. Irrlicht's default window can't be set to it at the time being, but you can create a custom window and then insert Irrlicht (see example 14).

[hybrid]

Maybe post a link to the flag description, then we could arrange for a startup parameter.

[Virion]

Maybe post a link to the flag description, then we could arrange for a startup parameter.

yay...

[Sylence]

WS_EX_TOPMOST http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 85%29.aspx

Iirc Irrlicht uses CreateWindow to create the render window. This would have to be changed to CreateWindowEx

[das heck]

In other words: Without changes in the irrlicht sources there is no possibility? yuck :/

[hybrid]

You might be able to use the ExposedVideodata and call some windows method on it.

[pc0de]

You might be able to use the ExposedVideodata and call some windows method on it.

Yes, this works:

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SExposedVideoData evd = m_videoDriver->getExposedVideoData();
HWND hwnd = (HWND) evd.OpenGLWin32.HWnd;
SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE);