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deumas

Hi,

I´m joining about six chat-rooms regularly and doing this manually everytime I startup steam isn´t really fun (translate as: I´m lazy :P).

I´ve added five of the chats (max number of characters reached) to my steam short-cut (target: blah/steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/103582791432125620 and so on) so that they´ll be joined when I startup steam but only the first chat in the shortcut will actually be joined.

Can someone come up with a solution (maybe some script I could launch with the steam-shortcut :?) that allows me to join all of them with less action to take?

Edit: Solved it myself. In Case someone else has use for this, this is how I´ve done it.

  1. create a new .txt file rename it to whateveryoulike.bat, right click on it, hit edit
  2. insert there:
    @ECHO OFF
    START steam://friends/joinchat/103582791432125620
    PING 127.0.0.1 -n 2
    START steam://friends/joinchat/xyz
    PING 127.0.0.1 -n 2
    START steam://friends/joinchat/xyz
    and so on...
    The ID (the numbers after the last backslash) of the chat is found in the source of the groups steam profile page (strg+f for joinchat)
    I´ve added the ping line to have a short break between each cmd since it didn´t work correct every time without it. Probably there is a more elegant way to do this but it´s a while since I´ve done this stuff...
  3. save+exit

After starting Steam you now just need to double click your .bat-file and it will join your favorite chatrooms for you :)

Best wishes

deumas

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keffertjuh

If you join them through the group tab in your friends list it doesnt take much time, can't really see what the effort is...

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deumas

That´s what I do at the moment and you´re right but I thought someone might have an even easier solution that saves the time ;)

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psydex

It's a pain in the arse if u joined many groups

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Xenum

You can create a batch file.

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deumas

I guessed so but since it´s a while since I´ve done that I thought someone got it ready and would share it but I´ve just tried it myself and it works like a charm :)

I´ll put my solution in the first post in case someone else has use for it.

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deumas

I´ve just edited the starting post while you replied^^
Yeah I´ve noticed that and used a localhost ping for this problem with probably the same result in the end but thanks for the hint :)

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deumas

Ah good to know I´ll edit that, thanks again :)

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CatastrophicLolcats

Get banned from each of them. That way you're under no obligation to join them.

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zeus9860

lol best solution i've seen so far!

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iHaxnoclip

....appreciate the groups that you are in and don't lurk

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thejadefalcon

This is for Firefox, but probably works on all other broswers as well. Right click on the join chat link on the group page and copy link address. Go to about:home on Firefox and bookmark it. Find the bookmark and edit the saved address to the chat link. Save. Done. One click bookmark for a group.

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Toaster

Thank you, gonna try that after I am back home. Joining around 18 chats manually can be annoying!^^

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deumas

18...jeez Toastie xD...

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diabLo2k5

I did tell you 3 times how you can do it in the last months :P

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Toaster

I was always afk when you explained it, lol! :D

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diabLo2k5

I would say you forgot it :P because the last time you sayed that you will try it xD...

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Toaster

ok, then I really forgot it ;x

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MerdA

you can create an empty text file and then edit it and write :

change the "D:\Steam\steam.exe" to the steam path in your system ofc :P

If you want to run this on startup you can add a starting timeout in the file and then move it to the startup folder.
Start /d

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

timeout 1

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

timeout 1

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

timeout 1

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

timeout 1

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

timeout 1

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

timeout 1

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

timeout 1

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

timeout 1

D:\Steam\steam.exe steam://friends/joinchat/"numbers"

and so on

change the file extension to .cmd and you're good:P

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diabLo2k5

i use start /wait....

start /wait "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" steam://friends/joinchat/xxx

Sometimes the script forget to open a chat...but mostly it works without problems...

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Cubi

Big thanks for this thread/idea!

Works perfectly - cool.

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Alteria

Cool! Thanks for this :D

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Rellikpt

thanks for the info

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le4slie

Worked perfectly. :D

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KLIGONEC

awesome script thank you :D

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Closed 12 years ago by deumas.