Hook for things that print in chat? or just getting text values?

[BastinkaLive]

Hey Facepunch,
I'm looking for a way of getting the text value of stuff that happens in chat. For examples: print(..), PrintMessage(..), chat.AddText(..), etc. Is there a way of getting those values? I can already get what players say but what I'm looking for is everything but that.

I tried the ChatText hook but it doesn't seem to work at all for anything (maybe only for chat.AddText?). Any help is be appreciated!

[Entoros]

You can use [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=859870[/url] to hook into the console, which is used for print().

But different forms of communication require different hooks -- there's not a universal solution.

[BastinkaLive]

That doesn't seem to work that well. The thread does show another module which might be useful (gmcl_menusystem) but I can't figure out how to use it as there I can't find a thread about it.

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Or I'm using enginespew wrong. What exactly are group and level inputs used for?

[samwilki]

Well, if you want you can use the player say hook, that gets what has been said.

[b][url=wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Gamemode.PlayerSay]Gamemode.PlayerSay [img]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/favicon.ico[/img][/url][/b]

[BastinkaLive]

[QUOTE=BastinkaLive;22874410]... I can already get what players say but what I'm looking for is everything but that.

..[/QUOTE]
Not what I'm looking for - added I'm trying to lean towards clientside stuff.

[decyg]

For chat.AddText you can use
[lua]
oldtext = chat.AddText
function chat.AddText(...)
--steal arg table here
oldtext(unpack(arg))
end
[/lua]

For printmessage you can use
[lua]
hook.Add("ChatText","notify",function(ply,pln,txt,messagetype)
--txt is the text passed through PrintMessage and such.

end)
[/lua]