Track how many times a player talkes?

Hello,

With the PlayerChatEvent, how can I get the # of messages sent by a player? For Ex. When a player sends 5 messages, then a player types another message after, it will give them an error, "You have to wait <TIME>." Basically a clean chat type of plugin.

 

A player can only send one message without pressing enter, and enter should call the playerChatEvent, right?

 

The enter will call the PlayerChatEvent.

 

Yeah...so there's no way one playerChatEvent can produce more than one message.
Or are you saying stop them if they've typed 5 messages recently? If so, it'd be a simple matter of increasing an integer and scheduling x seconds to decrease the integer, cancelling the event if the integer is large enough.

 

masterofsixpack

Add them to a hashmap with the key as a string (player name) & the value as an int (times they've talked) and every time AsyncPlayerChatEvent is called, check which player it is, remove them from the hashmap and re-add them with the number one higher

 

Im new to this. Could you tell me how I would do this?

 

www.google.com

 

masterofsixpack
Well to start, you should pickup a book or learn online how to code in Java. Then, when you get to the part that discusses HashMaps, come back here. Your life will be about 5000x easier if you learn Java before trying to work with Bukkit.

 

From my previous reply I noticed I was a bit, erm... blunt

Google things such as Hashmaps Java, Adding to a hashmap etc.

Hint, you'd do
HashMap<String, Integer> - this is old method. Not sure if HashMap<UUID,Integer> would work, I'm
tired and did not try to even move onto the UUID's yet.

Then you'd just add one to the integer every time they talk, if the integer equals 5 you send them a message
and remove their message by cancelling it. Every 30 seconds you reset the hashmap from their name, done.

 

How can I add one to the Integer in HashMap?

 

I shall quote the most useful reply in this thread for you, seeing you may of missed it.

 

Make a new HashMap<UUID,Integer>, here I'll call it "map".Hashmaps work like this:
map.put(UUID, x)
map.get(UUID)==x
map.put(UUID, y)
map.get(UUID) != x