[UTIL] Colour-Persistent String Wrapping

Hey there,

Using WordUtils.wrap() (from org.apache.commons.lang), colour codes aren't kept, so
wrapping "&aThis is a long green message, &bfollowed by an &3aqua &b one, &cand ends with a &4red &cone!" would do this when sending it to a player:


I noticed there is a double space between 'aqua' and 'one' D:

With this util, you can send the exact same message while preserving the colours:



Usage

String str: The string to wrap
char colourCode: The colour code character to use, such as '&' or '§'
int lineLength: The line length to base around - not all lines will be this length exactly
boolean wrapLongWords: Whether long words should be cut up to fit the lines

To show what wrapLongWords does, imagine your string was "&7Thisis&8averylongword&bsuchlength&3wow":





Example Usage

Code:

// the string to wrap
String s = "&aThis is a long green message, &bfollowed by an &3aqua&b one, &cand ends with a &4red &cone!";
 
String wrapped = Utils.wrapString(s, '&', 25, false);
 
// send it to the player
// colour codes are changed to §, so you can send the raw output
player.sendMessage(wrapped);

Find the gist here!


As usual, please leave any comments and (constructive) critisism below!

 

Chinwe

You haved earned one .

 

Chinwe
I hate to bump a fairly old thread, but this doesn't seem to be working for me. This is how I try to use it

Code:java

ItemStack air = ItemHelper.createItemStack(new ItemStack(Material.PISTON_MOVING_PIECE), ChatColor.GRAY + "Empty", "&6Nothing to see here.");

and here is the createItemStack method

Code:java

public static ItemStack createItemStack(ItemStack stack, String name, String lore) {
    ItemMeta meta = stack.getItemMeta();
 
    meta.setDisplayName(name);
    meta.setLore(Arrays.asList(StringWrapper.wrapString(lore, '&', 20, false)));
 
    stack.setItemMeta(meta);
    return stack;
}

the display name and lore is working, but instead of splitting the line when told to, it just adds an odd looking character in between the words.

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Any clue where I have gone wrong?

 

Assist
Lore might not like new lines, you could try spliting up the wrapped string around \\n, and using that as the List for the lore?

 

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