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Hook Inspector

This is a tool to diagnose compatibility issues with addons.

Use the console command hook_inspect to view a list of hooks and addons that control them.

Hooks are Gmod's event system. Addons use hooks to control how the game responds to certain events. For example, the CalcView hook can be used to control where the camera is located.

Some addons use hooks to aggressively. An addon using the CalcView hook might decide to control the camera all the time, even when it doesn't need to. This can cause problems for other addons that need to control the camera.

This means that an addon has returned a value from a hook that shouldn't be returned from. This can seriously break other addons that rely on these hooks. I could technically fix these with my tool, but it's probably better that you tell the authors of these addons so they can fix the issue.

- This tool only watches a small whitelist of hooks, heavily biased towards things that interfere with my addon. I'll probably expand the whitelist and add more features sometime in the future.
- This tool functions using a hook library detour. It probably won't work well with other addons that detour the hook library, such as: ULX/ULIB.
- This tool is not well optimized. It is meant to find issues with addons. You probably shouldn't keep it installed if you don't need it.
- The above is especially true for server owners. This tool continuously networks information about hooks to all players.