Two PlayerSay hooks conflicting?

Garry's Mod coding
#1

For some reason two PlayerSay hooks are conflicting. It isn’t function GM:PlayerSay() thy use hook.Add, so it’s not that. My first function is for RangedChat, the second function is for ChatCommands. If I remove the RangedChat the ChatCommands works perfectly, just how it is suppose to. So I take away the first PlayerSay, and the other one works. Even if I change the order where the code is, which doesn’t matter really, but it still makes the ChatCommands not work. So I know it has to do something with the hook, not the function, but I can’t seem to find it out. If anyone knows why it’s doing this please help me, or maybe it’s just something fucked up with Garry’s Mod 13 and I should just wait?

#2

can’t do anything without the relevant code

#3 

function PlayerChatCommands( ply, text )
	local TableCommand = ChatCommands[string.lower( string.Explode( " ", text ) [1] )]
	if TableCommand then
		callback, DoSayFunc = TableCommand.callback( ply, string.sub(text, string.len( TableCommand.command ) + 2, string.len( text )))
		return ""
	elseif string.sub( text, 1, 1 ) == "/" and !TableCommand then
		NotifyPerson( ply, Color(255, 0, 0), "Invalid command!" )
		return ""
	end
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "PlayerChatCommands", PlayerChatCommands )



function RangedChat( ply, str )
	if string == " " then return "" end
	
	if !ply:Alive() then
		NotifyPerson( ply, Color(255,0,0), "You can not talk when you're dead!" )
		return ""
	end
	
	for k, v in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do
		if ply:GetPos():Distance(v:GetPos()) < 500 then
			NotifyPerson( ply, Color(230,220,130), ply:Name().." says \""..str.."\"" )
		end
	end
	return ""
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "RangedChat", RangedChat )
#4

it will run them in order of when they are actually hooked.

ie if RangedChat is created first, it will be called first, thus making your other hook redundant unless it does something different like logging the chat.

i would advise merging the two hooks into 1.

#5

You can have two hooks and have it works just fine. The problem is you’re returning an empty string in the RangedChat hook, which prevents any other hooks from being called after it.

But like G4MB!T said, you can merge them into one hook to solve all the problems.

#6

Ah thanks guys, wouldn’t of guessed it was that. Replaced it with return false and it works all good now.

[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]

No, I lied.

#7

use return “”

#8

I just did this:


function RangedChat( ply, str )
	if str == " " then return "" end
	
	if string.sub( str, 1, 1 ) != "/" then
		if ply:Alive() then
			for k, v in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do
				if ply:GetPos():Distance(v:GetPos()) < 500 then
					NotifyPerson( ply, Color(230,220,130), ply:Name().." says \""..str.."\"" )
				end
			end
		else
			NotifyPerson( ply, Color(255,0,0), "You can not talk when you're dead!" )
		end
		return ""
	end
end
hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "RangedChat", RangedChat )
#9

[lua]
function RangedChat( ply, str )
if str == " " then return “” end

if string.sub( str, 1, 1 ) != "/" then
	if ply:Alive() then
		for k, v in pairs( player.GetAll() ) do
			if ply:GetPos():Distance(v:GetPos()) &lt; 500 then
				NotifyPerson( ply, Color(230,220,130), ply:Name().." says \""..str.."\"" )
			end
		end
	else
		NotifyPerson( ply, Color(255,0,0), "You can not talk when you're dead!" )
	end
end

return ""

end
hook.Add( “PlayerSay”, “RangedChat”, RangedChat )
[/lua]

#10

That didn’t work, the one I did though.

#11

Returning “” prevents the chat from being said, and stops other hooks from running

Returning nothing lets the other hooks take action.