Resize event and screen size

[CephaluS]

Hello,

I have a Windows application that shows a CEF browser and over it a smaller floating window painted by the Windows API whose size and position is constrained by the size and position of the CEF browser.

When I resize the main window, the CEF browser resizes a bit slower than the main and floating windows so the visual effect is poorly de-synchronized. So I'd like to constraint the size of the floating window to the CEF browser dimensions not the fastest main window dimensions. I need to know when the CEF browser is changing its size and what is the new size.

I've been browsing the CEF API docs but I have not been able to find answer to these questions:

- How can I get a CEF event that reports the frame is changing its size continuously?.
- How can I know the width and height of a CEF browser?.

Thanks you.

[magreenblatt]

There is no way to synchronize this perfectly. What purpose does the floating window serve? Can you implement it using web content in the browser instead of a WinAPI overlay?

[CephaluS]

Hey,

Thanks for your usual promtply reply. I'm showing a video stream in the floating window. Because of the fast video data rate I'm not sure whether I can connect a raw bitmap data from the native program to a JS image texture using CEF. If this is possible I'd really appreciate you to show me some guidelines to approach this different strategy to solve the problem.

Thank you, Marshall.

[magreenblatt]

You could encode your data as a video stream and use a <video> tag in the browser.

[CephaluS]

This is an advanced topic for me but I'd like to address it. I guess I should provide the encoded stream as a custom request on the network layer in order to deliver the image data to the <video> tag. Please, let know if I'm right or going off too much on tangent.

Thanks.

[magreenblatt]

Correct. You will likely also need to handle Range requests for the video stream contents. See issue #2873 for related details.

[CephaluS]

That's great help, Marshall. You always delivers.

Thank you.