Using Hlyim

Requirements to Run

To run hlyim, you need the hlyim executable (of course, duh!), and the cygwin dll file. We used cygwin when developing this program because we felt that the networking code available to us there was far superiour to what was available through MFC (read: we were to cheap to go out and buy Visual c++).

Running

So once you have this hlyim thing on your system, how do you use it? Simple. Open a command prompt, and type:

	hlyim.exe <Yahoo ID> <yahoo password> <path to hl.exe>

It's that simple. At that point you should see the status messages of your friends in your friend list. You can join the game that one of your friends is in by typing:

 
        join <friend name &rt;

in the shell hlyim is running in. You can obtain a list of your logged in friends by typing:

        list

in either the Half Life console, or in the hlyim shell.

Once in a game, you can communicate with an individual in your friend list by opening the console and typing:

	team "<friend> message"

Before you ask, the quotes are necessary.

Included in the zip distribution is a .wav file called hlyim.wav. This file will be played when a message is received. You may insert any .wav file in place of this, just call it hlyim.wav. Someday when we care about useability, we will make this configurable...

Created on Mon Mar 11 21:49:22 MST 2002
By: Nathan Tenney