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		reactordev 83 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 What’s really fun is hooking into the WM_PAINT event from the target processes main thread and then drawing your own controls over whatever was rendered… Overlays, AIMBots, Discord, Flight Sim Software, we all do it…

__del__ 81 days ago [–]

i did this in the 90s for some kewl showoff programs generating something or other. i assumed there would be a modern graphics framework and API now. still just intercepting that paint event eh?

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