steamworks.isLoggedOn

Type Boolean
Revision Release 2022.3683
Keywords steam, steamworks, isLoggedOn
See also steamworks.*

Overview

This property will be true if all of the following are true:

Important

If this property is false, most of this plugin's APIs will fail to work and return false or nil. Assuming that the application is set up correctly, you must assume that the user is not currently logged into the Steam client and is running the application directly. In this case, you should request the user to exit the application, log into Steam, and then re-launch the application via the Steam client.

Note that if this property returns false, it'll never return true for the lifetime of the application, even if the user logs into the Steam client while the application is running. The user must exit the application and restart it after logging into Steam.

Example

local steamworks = require( "plugin.steamworks" )

-- Do not continue if a logged in Steam user can't be found
-- This means the Steam client is not running or the user is not logged in
if ( steamworks.isLoggedOn == false ) then

    -- Handle the native alert's result displayed below
    local function onAlertHandler( event )
        -- If user logged in, display the Steam client via its custom URL scheme
        if ( event.action == "clicked" ) and ( event.index == 1 ) then
            system.openURL( "steam:" )
        end

        -- Exit this app, regardless of which button was pressed
        -- The Steam client MUST be running when this app starts up
        native.requestExit()
    end

    -- Display a native alert asking the user to log into Steam
    local message =
        "You must log into Steam in order to play this game.\n" ..
        "After logging in, you must then relaunch this app."
    native.showAlert( "Alert", message, { "Log In", "Close" }, onAlertHandler )

    -- Exit out of the "main.lua" file
    -- The screen will be black, only showing the native alert above
    return
end

-- Successfully connected to Steam
print( "Successfully connected to Steam!" )