eve-overlay

Electron-based overlay window launcher and manager.

• Purpose: Provides a small menu window to open and manage overlay windows. Overlays can load either local UI or remote URLs and support frameless transparent windows for in-game overlays.

• Main entry: main.js

• UI files: menu.html, window.html, test.html

• Styles: css/ (fonts.css, menu.css, window.css)

• Fonts: fonts/

Run (development):

• Install dependencies (Electron is required):

npm install

• Start the app:

npm start

(The start script runs electron . as defined in package.json.)

Key behavior & IPC channels

• main.js creates a small menu window (menu.html) and can spawn overlay windows via createOverlayWindow().

• Overlays support two modes:

  • Remote: loads a URL in a framed window (OS window controls enabled).
  • Local: loads window.html in a frameless, transparent window suited for in-game overlays.

• IPC channels used by the app:

  • window:minimize — minimize the sending window
  • window:close — close/destroy the sending window
  • window:getBounds — returns current window bounds
  • window:setBounds — apply new window bounds (resize/move)
  • menu:openOverlay — request opening a new overlay (payload may be a string title or { title, url })

Notes & requirements

• Requires Node.js and Electron. If Electron is not installed locally, install it as a devDependency or globally:

npm install --save-dev electron
# or
npm install -g electron

• This repository doesn't bundle overlays; menu.html is the launcher UI and window.html is the local overlay UI.

Files to inspect

• main.js — app entry and window management logic
• menu.html — launcher UI
• window.html — local overlay UI

If you want, I can:

• add a short README section showing how to build an overlay payload example
• add a devDependencies entry for electron in package.json
• create a simple overlay example inside window.html