Thanks a lot! That really helped.
You wouldn't happen to have an example of how to use the Steamclient.dll file in VB6/.net lying around, would you? ;-) I've not been looking deeply into it, but I haven't been able to find any documentation on how to use the steamclient.dll. Thanks > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 13:31:04 -0800 > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] How to find SteamID > > Well as long as we're coming up with alternatives: > - Read HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam\LastGameNameUsed > - Enumerate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam\Users for a matching > friends\PersonaName value > - The keys under Users are account IDs. You can use them to get a > SteamID. > > Infallible? Hardly. But it's the best out-of-game, no-steam-dlls solution I > could come up with besides mucking around in the blob file. > > If you know where Steam is installed > (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam\SteamPath), you can load > steamclient.dll and get the SteamID easy. If you want more details, reply > and ask. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darien Hager > Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 1:06 PM > To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] How to find SteamID > > Just to toss out an alternative... I think the "current user name" is > probably somewhere in the clientregistry.blob file after the user is > logged-in... but parsing that thing directly isn't very fun and likely > won't be as stable making your own exe/dll. (I'm working on phasing out > some clientregistry-using code for those reasons.) > > --Darien > > Alexander Hirsch wrote: > > It does work. I did some stuff with that already. > > The code down there is just on top of my head though. Still, should > > work like that. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > _________________________________________________________________ Få 25 GB lagerplads på nettet! http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/windows/windowslive/products/skydrive.aspx _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
