Thank you! I'll try that when I get home tonight :-)
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:21:00 -0800
> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] How to find SteamID
>
> STEAM_0:"AccountID & 0x01":"AccountID >> 1"
>
> Or "Mod 2" and "/ 2" respectively.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Bang
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] How to find SteamID
>
>
> Okay.
> How would you get a SteamID from an account ID - as you described in :
>
> > > 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:05:33 -0800
> > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] How to find SteamID
> >
> > No examples for VB6, but if I were doing it, I'd make a separate C++ DLL
> > with an exported function that gives me what I want and use VB6 to call
> > that.
> >
> > Steamclient.dll does export some functions, but nothing with what you
> want.
> > Everything else is in an interface and working with that in VB6 will be
> > impossible.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Bang
> > Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:51 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] How to find SteamID
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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