[HorseMount] How to make a casting timer and make the player ride a horse?

I realy need help with examples of code if you can please.

So what i need is to know how can i do a casting timer. For example you rightclick a saddle and a 5 seconds start counting down and if you move or engage pvp the countdown stops and nothing happens but if you dont and the countdown reaches 0 you will be set to ride a horse and if you leave the horse it despawns!

 

Bukkit has a page on its wiki which explains everything you need to know about that : http://wiki.bukkit.org/Scheduler_Programming

 

To make the player ride the horse do a little code like this:

Code:java

horse.setPassenger(player);

 

thanks, but still i dont know how to do the casting

 

The countdown can be done with what Totom3 sais; scheduled programming.

 

BaHeTo0 When you schedule the task, you either get a task ID or a BukkitTask object. Store that in a Map<UUID, Integer/BukkitTask> (depending on which methods you use), and check if they have a Map entry in the movement/damage listener. If existant, cancel the task.

 

fireblast709

as i said "I realy need help with examples of code if you can please."

 

BaHeTo0

Code:

new BukkitRunnable () {
  @Override
  public void run() {
    // mount the player on his horse
  }
}.runTaskLater(plugin, time);

That's an example.

 

To expand it a tiny bit:

Code:

BukkitTask task = new BukkitRunnable()
{
    @Override
    public void run()
    {
        // Mount
        // remove BukkitTask from Map
    } 
}.runTaskLater(plugin, time);
// add BukkitTask to Map

Your listeners would do the following:

• remove from Map, store the value returned
• if the return value is not null, invoke cancel()