I think SendChatMsg sends to friends only.

As for the enums, the EFriendMsgType is generally the one used in the newest interfaces, and I don't know if the older ones translate EChatEntryType to those, or just handle those themselves.

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Page 3!

Is this safe to mess around with? I know it doesn't touch VAC but would valve approve/take action?

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Not too bothered, just wondering.

Valve could change their policy on using leaked and stolen documents and ban your account.

Remember the achievement unlocker and idler?

That situation was a specific case. It's impossible to know if the game is editing achievements/stats, or if an outside program is doing so. But it's easy for them to track when people unlocked them. So if they check their databases for players who unlocked the majority of the achievements in a few seconds/minutes, it's a no brainer for them.

The idler was only because Valve changed their policies in regards to using external programs to get items. It's possible that using OSW in this same fashion could get people's items removed, but so far nothing has happened from running my own idler on localhost. Could support the theory that valve only monitored what servers clients connected to.

If any one is to lazy to compile it on their own, then i made a build bot just for the fun of it.
http://server1.hiddenservers.org/bui...%20Steamworks/

Valve got pissed because a few users were gaming the system and devaluing the items that other users got legitimately. Like inflation.

This is nothing like that.

Another interesting example of what is possible with OSW:


I'd also mention that this is a C# project, running on top of dotnetworks. All the code for this is available on the SVN.

more than awesome

This is pretty cool, I made a winamp name changer thing or w/e.

ochre owns

You have a picture of yourself as your BG.

look a fake girl on his steam friends too lolol

Steam update just rolled out: http://store.steampowered.com/news/2931/

One interesting thing to note:
Fixes? Something was broken? Who knows. It's hard to tell what they changed when there are so many possibilities. I'll look into it and see what I can figure out.

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All current example code located within the SVN is functional.

If anyone is interested in the code for the winamp plugin thing it's right here. It's crap code and made me facepalm when I was done, but I was messing around just to see what you could do. I'll probably make it again in C# since Voided is doing some pretty cool stuff in that.

	int winampticker = 0;
	HSteamPipe hSteamPipe = steamClient->CreateSteamPipe();
	HSteamUser hSteamUser = steamClient->ConnectToGlobalUser(hSteamPipe);
	ISteamFriends002 *steamFriends = (ISteamFriends002 *)steamClient->GetISteamFriends( hSteamUser, hSteamPipe, STEAMFRIENDS_INTERFACE_VERSION_002 );
	const std::string friendsName(steamFriends->GetPersonaName());
	std::string myName = "DefaultName";

	while(winampticker <= 2000)
	{
		if(winampticker == 1000)
		{
			//WINAMP AREA
			HWND hwndWinamp = FindWindow("Winamp v1.x",NULL); //Finding window
			int retainer=SendMessage(hwndWinamp,WM_USER, 0, 104);
			char winamp[2048],*p;
			GetWindowText(hwndWinamp,winamp,sizeof(winamp));
			p = winamp+strlen(winamp)-8;
			while (p >= winamp)
			{

				if (!strnicmp(p,"- Winamp",8)) break;
				p--;

			}
			if (p >= winamp) p--;
			while (p >= winamp && *p == ' ') p--;
			*++p=0;

			if(retainer == 3)
			{
					myName = friendsName;
					myName += " - ";
					myName += "Winamp Paused";
					steamFriends->SetPersonaName(myName.c_str());
					winampticker = 0;
			}
			else if(retainer == 1)
			{
					myName = friendsName;
					myName += " - ";
					myName += winamp;
					steamFriends->SetPersonaName(myName.c_str());
					winampticker = 0;
			}
		}

		Sleep(3);
		winampticker++;
	}

I thought you used the winamp API to get the song, i forgot about GetWindowText :P

You actually don't need to use the "winamp API" at all. I've never messed with winamp before so originally I thought that as well. Voided showed me this thread: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=180297
It's actually simple as hell to work with, you can just SendMessage() everything. The one I have right now actually allows you to play, pause, etc with chat commands but it's pretty much useless.
That's how I check if winamp is paused or not.

int retainer=SendMessage(hwndWinamp,WM_USER, 0, 104);

That shows if winamp is paused or not, if it's paused it returns "3" if not, it returns "1".

This is delicious!

Damn you're updating the SVN faster than a turkey on Thanksgiving.
Wait that didn't really make any sense but you're updating it fucking fast.

There needs to be a 'wut' rating

Also, it's because he is working on the interface, that, and there was a steamworks update yesterday that he is figuring out.

Keeping this project updated is a priority of mine.

Currently my focus is the dotnetworks project, so there will be breaking changes for a while until the design is finalized.

I salute you for being a reverse engineer. A man's job right there.

If anyone could make a Python module of Open Steamworks, I would nerdgasm to that

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Or actually I might just learn C# since Python is a fucking pain to create GUIs for

why would anyone make a module for such a garbage scripting language?

Just because you don't like Python, doesn't mean it's garbage.
Nearly all GTK apps are written in Python

gtk is just as bad, and i'm pretty sure they're not.

Makes me wonder. Does something exist which you do not hate or you do not want to shit on?

it's not that he hates everything, it's that everyone here seems to like the dumbest shit.

 

Especially Denzo

What's so bad about Python?

Anyway I had an idea for something. Some module that changes your steam avatar randomly or every X minutes from a picture in a specified folder.

An intriguing idea, but unfortunately isn't possible with OSW. Uploading avatars and related features are handled by the community website.

You (I) could probably make a standalone PHP script for that :D good idea

What about a random name changer? Have it pick a name from a list of names, maybe from a text file and have it change your name at a set interval.

you can write that in like 5 seconds, just use SetPersonaName from steamFriends interface and have it change names.
I've actually ran into some problems with setting the name, if it sets the name too fast it will crash steam and you'll have to replace all your dlls with a backup or just reinstall steam so be careful when spamming name changes.

#include "SteamAPI.h"
#include <string>
#include <ctime>

// or link in your project settings
#pragma comment(lib, "..\\steamclient")

// 20 seconds
#define TIMESPAN 20

#define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0]))
std::string names[] = 
{
	"This is a witty name",
	"Another hilarious name",
	"Whatever name"
};

int main()
{
	int error;
	ISteamClient008 *steamClient = (ISteamClient008 *)CreateInterface(STEAMCLIENT_INTERFACE_VERSION_008, &error);
	HSteamPipe pipe = steamClient->CreateSteamPipe();
	HSteamUser user = steamClient->ConnectToGlobalUser(pipe);
	ISteamFriends005 *steamFriends = (ISteamFriends005 *)steamClient->GetISteamFriends(user, pipe, STEAMFRIENDS_INTERFACE_VERSION_005);

	time_t lastChange = time(NULL);
	uint32 nameIndex = 0;
	uint32 maxNames = ARRAY_SIZE(names);
	while (true)
	{
		time_t timeNow = time(NULL);

		if ((timeNow - lastChange) > TIMESPAN)
		{
			std::string nameChange = names[nameIndex];
			std::cout << "Changing name to: " << nameChange << std::endl;

			steamFriends->SetPersonaName(nameChange.c_str());

			nameIndex++;
			if (nameIndex > (maxNames - 1))
				nameIndex = 0;

			lastChange = timeNow;
		}
	}
}

Of course this is lacking any proper error checking. You should always check your interfaces and pipe/user to make sure you actually got them.

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In combination with http://altpluzf4.is1337.net/colorname.html, it could be pretty interesting.

except for the in-game spam of "YOU HAVE CHANGE YOUR NAME" which would probably kick you from most servers

Just wondering, is it possible to compile this under Code::Blocks (MinGW). I can compile it fine under Visual Studio but under Code::Blocks I get lots of errors. Most of them are things like "pasting X does not give a valid preprocessing token" and "wrong number of arguments specified for 'depreciated' attribute".

Noxn what are you doing

Hate to say it but if your name is forced to something longer than the normal limit only you will see the name.