How to create a display

[hrueger]

Hi,
with the help of this repository, I was able to get the basic setup with electron working.
However, for now just adding scenes, sources and recording works. I'd like to add a output display.
In streamlabs-obs I found this code: https://github.com/stream-labs/streamlabs-obs/blob/e707f9819a10296893f4d3e058d12110c1ec44a7/app/services/video.ts#L254-L275
So I have the following code:

const osn = require("obs-studio-node");
 // do all the initialization stuff, like here: https://github.com/Envek/obs-studio-node-example/blob/a099849c5e053cced4cfb23f9a250f95e5c7967f/obsRecorder.js#L10-L64
const t = new BrowserWindow({
    height: 300,
    width: 400,
    webPreferences: {
      nodeIntegration: true,
    }
  });

  osn.NodeObs.OBS_content_createDisplay(
    t.getNativeWindowHandle(),
    "test",
    1,
  );

But it just gives me the normal BrowserWindow.
Rendering mode can be 0, 1 or 2 as defined here but it doesn't work with any of them.

What am I missing or doing wrong?

[hrueger]

Sorry for another ping, but it's a great library and it would be very helpful if someone could just post a simple example for creating a display.
As you can tell from #578 there are quite some people who are interested in knowing how to use the library.

[hrueger]

Thank you!

[aza547]

I'm struggling with this also, was there a solution?

[hrueger]

See here: https://github.com/hrueger/obs-studio-node-docs/blob/main/docs/displays.md

[aza547]

Thanks! I've been referencing these docs a lot - thanks for creating them. The bit I was missing was the resize, seems that it never gets drawn on the window without the call to osn.NodeObs.OBS_content_resizeDisplay().

I'm now facing another two problems:

1. The display is always on-top of the window. I'd like to allow menus / tooltips to overlay it. Any idea if it's possible?
   

2. The call to OBS_Content_destroyDisplay to hide the display seems to freeze up my program. I've hacked around it for now with this, but bit nervous about leaving it like that.

    // I'd love to make OBS_content_destroyDisplay work here but I've not managed
    // so far. This is a hack to "hide" it by moving it off screen.
    osn.NodeObs.OBS_content_moveDisplay(this.previewName, 50000, 50000);

[aza547]

Seems like 1 is answered here:
#1229