Chat

I have made a plugin which requires a prefix to the player in chat. How would i go about coding this so that i can have a custom name infront of the players name (like essentials)

 

Example:

Code:java

player.setDisplayName(ChatColor.RED + "[Some-Prefix] " + ChatColor.BLUE + player.getName());

 

chasechocolate

I tried this but it doesnt work when i type in chat i get <NoLiver92> message

i put your code on player join but i cant get it to work

 

NoLiver92 are there any other plugins on the server that could interfere with yours? If not, try adding a line of debug to print out player.getDisplayName().

 

Ahh essentials was stopping it, how do i integrate it with essentials so it works?

 

disable it in the config from essentials.

 

lenis0012 sorry i wasnt clear, i need to integrate it with something like pex and essentials but i dont know how to do this

 

Have you considered using Vault to get a players group prefix?

 

Timatooth I have no idea where to start with this, is there a tutorial anywhere?

 

Have a look at http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/vault/ under the "Linking Vault section"

Basically you only want to deal with chat; so you only need the setupChat() method called from onEnable() which assigns a reference to a "chat"
e.g

Code:

import org.bukkit.whatever
import what.ever.packages.from.vault
 
public class MyPlugin extends JavaPlugin{
  private Chat chat
 
  public void onEnable(){
    ...
    setupChat();
    ...
    //later on do whatever with chat methods
  }
}

Once you have the chat variable initialized, you can do all kinds of stuff like chat.getPlayerPrefix("Timatooth", "world") etc. JavaDocs for Vault's chat API here: http://mythcraft.dyndns.org/javadoc/vault/

 

Did you make the MineLoad plugin?

 

Yes, as my signature and plugins link suggests

 

You are one genius web designer.
I wish i had soe of your talent, lol.

 

If you're using specifically Essentials and nothing else, I'd use Essentials to set someone's nickname. There's also the lazy method of executing a command from console to set someone's pEX prefix, but I'd advise against that (and using pEX in general).
Using Essentials:

Code:

String prefix = "[SomePrefix]";
String playerName = player.getName();
Plugin essentialsPlugin = Bukkit.getServer().getPluginManager().getPlugin("Essentials");
if (essentialsPlugin != null) {
    if (essentialsPlugin instanceof Essentials) {
        Essentials essentials = (Essentials) essentialsPlugin;
        essentials.getUserMap().getUser(playerName).setNickname(prefix + " " + essentials.getUserMap().getUser(playerName).getNickname());
    }
}

(or at least that's how I used to do it, no guarantees.)
Other than that, using Vault works too, especially if you plan for it to be run on servers that don't use Essentials for chat.