Scoreboard Help

Hey,

I'm wondering - whenever I try to create a scoreboard with more than 16 characters to a line, it gives an IllegalArgumentException - that the provided string is > 16 characters in length, which isn't allowed with scoreboards. My immediate solution to that was that I would use scrolling text, which I easily can do. However, I saw that plugins like http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/customscoreboard/ and http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/ezrankslite/ have more than 16 characters. In fact, when I decompiled EZRanks to see how they did it, I found that they had a cap of 48 characters. I was wondering how they managed to do that? I was unable to find anything special in either of their codes.

Thanks for all help

 

They are using teams. with that you can set a prefix and suffix.

Example:
this is a message with more than 16 characters__
bold text is the player you add to the team and then you add the prefix and suffix

Code:

        Scoreboard scoreboard = whatever;
        Team team = scoreboard.registerNewTeam("e with more than"); // name the team the same as the message so there are no duplicates
        team.addEntry("e with more than"); // this is like the "player"
        team.setPrefix("this is a messag");
        team.setSuffix("16 characters__");

 

Thanks How do I apply this time to the Sidebar Scoreboard objective?

Meant teams, not time.

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