Solved Changing the lines of a sign.

Hello, I am writing a core plugin for my minehut server. I want to make a event where if you place a sign and if it contains color codes it will translate.

This is my current code.

Code:

@EventHandler
    public void onSignPlace(BlockPlaceEvent event) {
        BlockState state = event.getBlockPlaced().getState();
     
        if (state instanceof Sign) {
            Sign sign = (Sign) state;
         
            String L1 = sign.getLine(0);
            String L2 = sign.getLine(1);
            String L3 = sign.getLine(2);
            String L4 = sign.getLine(3);
         
            sign.setLine(0, ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', L1));
            sign.setLine(1, ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', L2));
            sign.setLine(2, ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', L3));
            sign.setLine(3, ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', L4));
        }
    }

How do I make this work? It leaves the sign blank in game.

 

@Ding1934 You should use the SignChangeEvent instead of the BlockPlaceEvent.

 

Thank you for telling me it's working intended now!

 

Also if you just want to color every line you could use a simple loop instead of repeating yourself. Example

Code:

for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++) 
    sign.setLine(i, ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', sign.getLine(i)));