A Handy Command Menu

Half-Life and its mods let you create your own menu to run preset commands quickly, without touching the console. With a menu you can, for example, quickly change your nickname, model or player color, switch servers and so on.

First we need to create a file called commandmenu.txt; this is the file where the menu is edited. Create it in the valve or valve_russian folder.
For example, C:/Games/Half-Life/valve/

To open the menu, add the following command to your config:


Here m is the key that brings up the menu when pressed.
You can also enter it in the console of Half-Life: start the game and press the ~ (tilde) key.

Now let's edit our menu.
It is structured like this:



The number is a digit on your keyboard: pressing 0-9 selects the items in the menu.

As an example, let's make a one-item menu for quickly connecting to the Emperor server.
To do this, paste the following text into commandmenu.txt:



This is what the menu looks like.



For all five of our HLDM servers the menu looks like this:



And here's how it all looks:


You can also build a more complex menu with several sublevels:



Or even more complex:



And here is a ready-made menu; all that's left is to replace the default nicknames with your own.
All you need to do is copy the following text into commandmenu.txt



This is what the menu looks like:




P.S.
Note that if a console command needs a space, for example when your nickname contains one, write % instead of the space.
Example:


Selecting this item changes the player's name to [HLDM.ORG] Gamer