EDMC Overlay is a helper program for Elite:Dangerous, It provides a means for a program such as EDMC to display simple messages in the game's DirectX window.
This is released as an installable EDMC Plugin, download the msi file from the Releases page and run the installer as the same windows user you use to play Elite:Dangerous
The New installer and server program are now signed. EDMCOverlay has a certificate authority (CA) that signs our own authenticode key.
The CA certificate thumbprint is 0c2120b504788afd322dc7c45a8a023ca6850787 and is located at https://github.com/inorton/EDMCOverlay/blob/master/edmcoverlay-rootca.cer
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EDMC Overlay offers a very very simple line-json based network protocol.
The service when started will listen on TCP 127.0.0.1:5010. If EDMCOverlay cannot detect EliteDangerous64.exe it will exit silently.
Assuming EliteDangerous64.exe is running, you may send a single JSON message (on one line) Like so:
{"id": "test1", "text": "You are low on fuel!", "size": "normal", "color": "red", "x": 200, "y": 100, "ttl": 8}Supported colors values are: "red", "green", "yellow", "blue" or "#rrggbb".
Supported size values are: "normal" and "large"
Additionally, you may draw rectangles by setting the "shape" to "rect" and setting the "color" and/or "fill" values.
{"id": "fred", "shape": "rect", "x": 100, "y": 10, "w": 30:, "h": 5, "fill": "red", "color", "#ccff00"}The server will process this as an instruction to display the message "You are low on fuel!" in red text at 200,100 for 8 seconds.
Be sure to send a newline ("\n") character after your message. You may need to flush the socket.
There are (currently) no response values from the service.