Big Picture gamepad text input has been closed. Parameter is true if text was submitted, false if cancelled etc.

The country of the user changed

Fired when running on a laptop and less than 10 minutes of battery is left, fires then every minute The parameter is the number of minutes left

Called when Steam wants to shutdown

Returns battery power [0-1]

Normally this call is unneeded if your game has a constantly running frame loop that calls the D3D Present API, or OGL SwapBuffers API every frame. However, if you have a game that only refreshes the screen on an event driven basis then that can break the overlay, as it uses your Present/SwapBuffers calls to drive it's internal frame loop and it may also need to Present() to the screen any time an even needing a notification happens or when the overlay is brought up over the game by a user. You can use t..

returns the 2 digit ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 format country code this client is running in (as looked up via an IP-to-location database) e.g "US" or "UK".

Returns true if the overlay is running and the user can access it. The overlay process could take a few seconds to start and hook the game process, so this function will initially return false while the overlay is loading.

Returns whether this steam client is a Steam China specific client, vs the global client

returns true if Steam and the Steam Overlay are running in Big Picture mode Games much be launched through the Steam client to enable the Big Picture overlay. During development, a game can be added as a non-steam game to the developers library to test this feature

returns true if Steam itself is running in VR mode

Sets the position where the overlay instance for the currently calling game should show notifications. This position is per-game and if this function is called from outside of a game context it will do nothing.

Returns the number of seconds since the application was active

Returns the number of seconds since the user last moved the mouse etc

Steam server time. Number of seconds since January 1, 1970, GMT (i.e unix time)

returns the language the steam client is running in, you probably want Apps.CurrentGameLanguage instead, this is for very special usage cases

Returns true if we're using a battery (ie, a laptop not plugged in)

Set whether the HMD content will be streamed via Steam In-Home Streaming If this is set to true, then the scene in the HMD headset will be streamed, and remote input will not be allowed. If this is set to false, then the application window will be streamed instead, and remote input will be allowed. The default is true unless "VRHeadsetStreaming" "0" is in the extended appinfo for a game. (this is useful for games that have asymmetric multiplayer gameplay)

Asynchronous call to check if an executable file has been signed using the public key set on the signing tab of the partner site, for example to refuse to load modified executable files.

Returns previously entered text

returns the image in RGBA format

returns true if the image exists, and the buffer was successfully filled out results are returned in RGBA format the destination buffer size should be 4 * height * width * sizeof(char)

Sets the inset of the overlay notification from the corner specified by SetOverlayNotificationPosition

Activates the Big Picture text input dialog which only supports gamepad input

ask SteamUI to create and render its OpenVR dashboard