Get Steam account name and install path

Author: Afrow UK (talk, contrib)

Description

This gets the account name for Valve's Steam (Half-Life 1, 2 etc) It also returns Steam's install path (e.g. C:\Valve\Steam)

Usage

Call GetSteamAccountName
Pop $R0 ; account name e.g. afrow uk
Pop $R1 ; steam path e.g. C:\Valve\Steam

If Steam is not installed, then empty strings are returned.

If Steam is installed but no accounts are found, then the account name returned is "[ACCOUNT_NAME]".

The Function

Function GetSteamAccountName
Push $R0
Push $R1
Push $R2
Push $R3
 
 ReadRegStr $R0 HKCU "Software\Valve\Steam" "SteamExe"
 StrCmp $R0 "" noSteam
 
 StrCpy $R1 0
  IntOp $R1 $R1 - 1
  StrCpy $R2 $R0 1 $R1
  StrCmp $R2 "" noAccount
  StrCmp $R2 "/" 0 -3
 StrCpy $R0 $R0 $R1
 
 StrCpy $R1 0
  IntOp $R1 $R1 + 1
  StrCpy $R2 $R0 1 -$R1
  StrCmp $R2 "" +8
  StrCmp $R2 "/" 0 -3
 StrCpy $R2 $R0 -$R1
 IntOp $R1 $R1 - 1
 StrCpy $R3 $R0 "" -$R1
 StrCpy $R0 "$R2\$R3"
 IntOp $R1 $R1 + 1
 Goto -9
 
 FindFirst $R1 $R2 "$R0\steamapps\*.*"
 loopFile:
  StrCmp $R2 "SourceMods" nextFile
  StrCmp $R2 "."          nextFile
  StrCmp $R2 ".."         nextFile
 
  IfFileExists "$R0\steamapps\$R2\*.*" done
 
 nextFile:
  ClearErrors
  FindNext $R1 $R2
  IfErrors 0 loopFile
 FindClose $R1
 
 noAccount:
  StrCpy $R2 "[ACCOUNT_NAME]"
 
 done:
  StrCpy $R1 $R0
  StrCpy $R0 $R2
  Goto +3
 
 noSteam:
  StrCpy $R1 ""
  StrCpy $R0 ""
 
Pop $R3
Pop $R2
Exch $R1
Exch
Exch $R0
FunctionEnd

Written for new NSIS user in this forum topic (modified afterwards for Source mod developers).

-Stu