Solved How can I do a timer on a plugin?

I have a plugin just like tpa thingy.. Where you have to request another player to get teleported, to him.. I just wanted something like a request timeout.

Anybody know how to do that?
- Thanks.

 

Try doing a repeating task, then create a countdown method. Not sure, correct me if I'm wrong.. Never worked with countdowns

 

@ZygoZ
It's called a cooldown. Make an array, and add the player to the array if you want him to have the cooldown. Then, make a runnable which only counts down for players in the array.
Watch this:

 

Thread.sleep is not a proper way to do it, I wanted to know if there was some other way.

 

@ZygoZ
There's a search engine called "google". There are lots of other videos/posts on this.

 

@ProMCKingz Google?

@ProMCKingz Well.. Now I have a cooldown for the command.. Now I just want a timeout.. I'm a newb.

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

 

@ProMCKingz Both videos are bad practices. Protip : exclude YT from searches related to programming by appending "-site:youtube.com".

Now that you're not distracted by bad results, here is a good post, except you would use UUID's @ZygoZ (I actually had a player rename during a 4 hours long countdown with a very outdated plugin )

 

@ZygoZ
Some code taken from my UHC plugin,

Code:

    public static void startBorder() {
        border = 5000;
        blocksLostPerSecond = 1;
        new BukkitRunnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {

                if (border != 250) {
                    border = border - blocksLostPerSecond;
                }
                else {
                    for (Player p : GameManager.getOnlinePlayers()) {
                        p.playSound(p.getLocation(), Sound.NOTE_BASS_GUITAR,10,10);
                    }
                    Bukkit.broadcastMessage("§6§l>> §5The border has been frozen at §d§l250§5!");
                    this.cancel();
                }

            }
        }.runTaskTimer(Main.getInstance(), 20L, 20L);
    }

 

@ProMCKingz Why use video tutorials?
@mythbusterma has told us enough times why video tutorials are bad xD

@ZygoZ

Code:

new BukkitRunnable(){
@Override
public void run(){

}
}.runTaskLater(<instance of main class>,<time before the timer starts>,<delay>)

 

I think I got something going for me.. Thank you for helping guys!