Chat Event Send a "Say" as a user

I am creating a plugin that sends a message as a say from the player who issues the slash command, like /joke and the system would create a "say" in chat as that user with a random joke. I am having a hard time finding the API for different types of chat messages that I can send, like a "say" as opposed to a "msg".

Any help would be appreciated!

 

Just use player.sendMessage(). You can make it look like the default "say" message by adding the correct color and formatting.

 

I assume you want the message to be broadcasted to all players.
Then use: server.broadcastMessage(String msg)

 

There is a method "chat()" in the Player class: http://jd.bukkit.org/doxygen/d5/d74/interfaceorg_1_1bukkit_1_1entity_1_1Player.html

This is what you need.

 

No I want only people in range to see it, and I'm writing plugins from scratch I don't want to use a pre-defined plugin

 

boduzapho

Code:

plr.getServer().broadcastMessage(ChatColor.LIGHT_PURPLE + "[Server] Insert Joke Here.");

 

Something like hero chat where a say has a 300 block radius, anyone outside of those 300 blocks cannot see it

 

So whats the problem? If i remember correctly, there is a getNearbyEntities() api. If not, you could just loop through the online player list, get their locations and calculate the distance by yourself.

 

Or get all nearby entities and check if they are players. If so, cast it to Player and send them a message.

 

Okay so there is no system that restricts chat by distance, for example, most MMO's use say for the immediate area, and a yell which can be seen further away and of course a world type that everyone sees. I'm new to minecraft but not programming or MMO's and was not sure if it used a similar system.

 

This has been resolved (a long time ago) sorry for the late update.