[&6] Color Support in Config.yml file

Hi, I'm wondering how to add color support in the config file, and when a player is talking in chat, when they do &4hi, it shows up in dark red as hi, the same with the config and broadcasting messages.

 

You can use: ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&cSome string").

 

so, I could do this in the main class:
ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes(&c.ChatColor.RED, &6.ChatColor.GOLD); ?

 

SeanyJo no, the "&" is the code for the color (e.g. &c, &a, &b, if you had the code set to "=" it would be =c, =a, =b, etc.). The second argument is the string to convert.

 

so,
ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes(&c, &6); would give me the colors?
Sorry,i'm a beginner in Java and Bukkit Coding..

 

SeanyJo no. http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org/bukkit/ChatColor.html#translateAlternateColorCodes(char, java.lang.String)

 

So, public static String translateAlternateColorCodes(ChatColor.GOLD &, String 6) ?

 

SeanyJo nope. String colored = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&cYour string to colorize").

 

String colored = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&c");
I feel like I'm missing the ChatColor.<color> in there. where does it go?

 

You don't need ChatColor because the &c picks the colour to change it to and the ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes changes &c to the colour you want instead.

 

where do you put the color you want?

 

&c represents the colour you want

 

how does it know what color to output with &c?

String colored = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "ChatColor.RED");
or

String colored = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&c");

 

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1485009-bukkit-colour-codes/

 

SeanyJo Ok, you are making this way too complicated.
ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "string") is what it is. It is basically changing the &c or &whatever code to color in the "string". So like if I wanted it to translate &cHello I would put ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&cHello) and then it will translate what &c means. And it means red so it would put Hello in red.

 

that helped, thanks.
But now, i have the event listener, and i'm lost. In the listener class, I have:
@EventHandler
public void onPlayerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent event) {
event.setMessage(ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&c"));
}

}
And in the main class:

String colored = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&c");

How do you make it so anything would be red, not just hello?

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

 

SeanyJo sounds like you don't understand java. I would recommend learning the basics. Change it to: evt.setMessage(ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', evt.getMessage())).

 

it still doesn't work. I'll pick up a java tutorial tomorrow evening.

 

SeanyJo Just use the minecraft colour codes. They get translated automagically. So if you would a text be purple then just use §d. No need to translate it then.

SeanyJo Also that always work, just do what chasechocolate told you. Or show us your code.

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

 

Here's my code:
Main Class: http://pastie.org/8343062
Command Executor Class: http://pastie.org/8343069
Chat Editor Class: http://pastie.org/8343071

 

SeanyJo
Meh.. that method in ChatColor, in my opinion, is pointless. If it's giving you grief, use this:

Code:java

myString.replace('&', '§');

 

where do I put it? Also, what do I replace myString with?

 

The String you're trying to change..

 

in my main class, i have:

public static String colored = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "§");
and in the chat class:
@EventHandler
public void onPlayerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent event) {
if(event.getMessage().contains("&"));
TigreGames.colored.replace("&", "§");
}

}

 

SeanyJo
What are you trying to accomplish exactly? If I'm correct, that's just going to replace the '&' with the symbol that I forget the alt code for.

 

SeanyJo
do

Code:

@EventHandler
public void onPlayerChat(AsynxPlayerChatEvent e) {
    e.setMessage(ChatColor.translafeAlternateColorCodes('&',e.gerMessage()));
}

 

doesn't work... I fixed the spelling mistakes. I also removed the method in the main class.

 

SeanyJo
Sorry for the spelling mistakes.

Add this to your onEnable() method:
Bukkit.getPluginManager().registerEvents(this, this);

maybe you have to add this at the top after public class ???:
implements Listener

 

i added those, and I added this also:
@EventHandler
public void onPlayerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent e) {
if(e.getMessage().contains("&"));
e.setMessage(ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&',e.getMessage()));
}

}

 

That is NOT needed!

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