Refresh The Contents Of An External Inventory Someone Is Viewing?

Lets say player A is viewing the contents of a chest. When I add items to the chest like this: Inventory.add(ItemStack), player A does not see this change. It is only when player A closes the chest and reopens it when they see the changes to the inventory.

Is there a way to update the inventory or the inventoryView or something that can allow player A to see the changes take place in real-time? This is essential to my plugin.

Thanks in advance!

 

I think once the chest is opened and the contents are retrieved from the server, it's handled client side (not 100% positive don't trust me :3) but you may be slipping into "packets-territory"

 

I'm not sure, try player.updateInventory() ?

 

That would update the actual inventory of the player I think..

 

I believe so. I am still not sure what to do and I am really bad with packets...

Bump

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Bump. Still really need help.

 

I believe when a chest is opened it creates an inventory. You need to add it to the inventory he's looking at.

 

I do add it to the same inventory. The item change does not appear until the player closes the inventory and reopens it. I want to know how to refresh the inventory so the new item shows up without having to close and reopen

 

Maybe your best bet is to close it and then immediately reopen it? Might look a little trippy in game but it would get the job done :3

 

The only problem is I need to refresh it every second or two....

 

Flickering inventory it is then

 

I guess so... that might be the only way to do it. I wish bukkit would add a method to refresh an inventory.... (hint hint bukkit team)

 

After you call inventory.add(...), get a list of the players currently observing that inventory view (inventory.getViewers()) and call player.updateInventory() on each of those observers.

player.updateInventory() does indeed work for both parts of the inventory view, not just the player's own personal inventory; see the sortInventory() method from my ClickSort plugin here: https://github.com/desht/clicksort/.../me/desht/clicksort/ClickSortPlugin.java#L248