Pop out: EVE Online map tools in an always-on-top window

Pop out lifts part of EO-Map's map of EVE Online into a small browser window that stays on top of your other windows. Four things have it: the live card of reported kills, the whole New Eden feed, Intel and Creator Mode. Park the window on a second monitor, or over the game while EVE runs in a borderless window. It is the same tool in a different place: it keeps its look, what you typed or picked, and its link to the map. It is free, it runs in your browser, and there is nothing to install.

What pops out

One window, as tabs or a stack

The Pop out button is the ⧉ in the title bar of Intel and Creator Mode, before Minimise, beside the New Eden feed's title, and on the live card. Once the floating window is open the button reads Add to floating window and adds the next tool as a tab, so there is only ever one window. The strip along its top switches between Tabs, one tool at a time, and Stack, every tool one above the other with its own Collapse. EO-Map remembers that choice in this browser.

On the map, a popped tool's place shows In floating window with a Bring back button, and its ⧉ button reads Bring back too. In the window, each tab has its own Return to map, and in Stack each tool has a Return button. Closing the floating window puts everything back where it was, with what you typed, what you picked and the scroll position kept. The tool still works with the map while it is out: click a row in the floating live card and the map selects that system.

On top of the game, and the limits

In Chrome, Edge and Opera on a desktop computer the window is the browser's Document Picture-in-Picture window, which stays above other windows, including EVE while the game runs in a window or in borderless windowed mode. Exclusive fullscreen hides every ordinary window, this one included, so switch EVE to windowed or borderless if you want it on top. The window is opaque and it is not click-through: clicking it takes keyboard focus from the game until you click back. You can move it to another monitor and resize it, and the browser may remember its last size and position for the site.

Safari, and any desktop browser without Document Picture-in-Picture, gets an ordinary popup window with the same tabs and stack. It does not stay on top by itself; on Windows, PowerToys Always On Top (Win+Ctrl+T) can pin it. If the browser blocks pop-ups for the site, nothing opens until you allow them.

Creator Mode on one screen, the map on another

Pop Creator Mode out, press Hide UI on the main window, and the main window shows only the map while Creator keeps working in the floating window. Creator's own Clean plate does the same. Press F on the main window for full screen, and the map fills one monitor while you change its look, colours, effects and camera from the other. Neither Hide UI nor Clean plate reaches into the floating window.

What keeps running

With a floating window open and the map's tab hidden, minimised or covered by the game, EO-Map pauses the 3D map and the tickers in that tab, as a hidden tab always has, while the floating window keeps updating. Live rows keep arriving in a floating live card, and a floating feed keeps re-checking its snapshots every 2 minutes. Closing or reloading the map's tab closes the floating window, and nothing reopens it without a click.

How to pop something out

1. Open EO-Map in a desktop browser. For the feed or the live card, switch to Watch view with the button at the bottom right of the map, or press T.
2. Press ⧉ in the title bar of Intel or Creator Mode, beside the feed's title, or on the live card.
3. Move the window where you want it: over the game in a borderless window, or on a second monitor. Press ⧉ on another of the four to add it as a tab.
4. Press Bring back or Return to map, or close the window, to put everything back on the map.

Part of EO-Map

Pop out is a way of placing EO-Map's tools, not a separate app and not an in-game overlay. Nothing is installed and nothing reads the game client: the floating window shows the same data as the map, from the same snapshots and the same live stream, and it closes with the map's tab.

Related tools

• Intel, for reading a pasted Local or D-scan against the public record.
• Watch view, the big-monitor layout the feed and the live card belong to.
• Live kills, for the kill feed the live card carries.
• Cinematic, the presentation look for a map left running on a screen.
• All EO-Map features.

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