SteamOverlay Active/Inactive

[SpiderPig]

How can I check if the Steam Overlay is active?  I can't see anything that looks relevant under the Steamworks class.

[Josh]

Press shift+tab in the game.

[SpiderPig]

I know how to show it, what i need is a way to check if it is shown so I can disable mouse input to the game.

[Josh]

I thought Steam did this automatically?

[SpiderPig]

So did I, but when its shown the mouse will remain in the centre of the screen and still move the camera.

All I'm calling at the start of the game is Steamworks::Initialize().

[Josh]

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamUtils#IsOverlayEnabled

[gamecreator]

Seems like you can use this to tell if it's currently active: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamFriends#GameOverlayActivated_t

[SpiderPig]

Thanks.  That looks to be the one but all I can find is this;

Steamworks::steamfriends->ActivateGameOverlay()

Which is just another method of activating the overlay.

[SpiderPig]

Okay I found this which is a struct;

GameOverlayActivated_t

 

[SpiderPig]

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/api#callbacks

[Josh]

Ohhhhh it’s a callback. Those are such a pain I in the area works lib.

[SpiderPig]

Yeah.  I have it working now, thanks guys.  Is this something you'll end up managing in the Steamworks class or you think it is best left for us to implement?

[Josh]

You have it working? How?

[SpiderPig]

I created a class specifically for steam callbacks;

#header

class cSteamCallbacks
{
private:
	STEAM_CALLBACK(cSteamCallbacks, _onGameOverlayActivated, GameOverlayActivated_t);

public:
	bool steamOverlayActive = false;
};

#cpp

void cSteamCallbacks::_onGameOverlayActivated(GameOverlayActivated_t * pCallback)
{
	if (pCallback->m_bActive == 1) {
		steamOverlayActive = true;
	}
	else {
		steamOverlayActive = false;
	}
}

#App.cpp

cSteamCallback* steamCallback = nullptr;

bool _steamSuccess = Steamworks::Initialize();
if (_steamSuccess == true) {
	steamCallback = new cSteamCallback();
}

#Loop
if(steamCallback->steamOverlayActive == false){
	//Update mouse interaction
}