Which library should I use for creating an overlay?

• egui

  203 19,596 9.7 Rust

  egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

I'm trying to make an overlay for a game but I can't find a suitable library (hopefully something high level) that can display a transparent window on the entire screen AND allow inputs to pass through it. I managed to make something close with egui but found out that it doesn't support inputs passing through it, so I can't interact with anything other than the overlay itself which is always in focus.

• imgui-rs

  12 2,537 5.6 Rust

  Rust bindings for Dear ImGui

  

Have you looked into the imgui bindings for rust? imgui-rs

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• egui-d3d11

  1 38 0.0 Rust

  Discontinued D3D11 backend for egui.

Is this for a game you're making yourself or are you hooking into a game? you could look into the egui-d3d11 fork for some helpful examples, it's a bit premature but it does support keyboard and mouse inputs egui-d3d11

• egui_overlay

  2 126 8.0 Rust

  An Overlay Window that allows input to passthrough

• snowflake-ingame

  2 4 0.0 Rust

  Snowflake In-Game API Runtime

  

I’m doing exactly this over at snowflake-ingame with imgui-rs and the extra complication of using a shared texture object. Feel free to take a look.

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