Choosing a player at random?

Trill Depends. I don't know what 'randomPlayer' is. Is it a Player an Integer, or a String?

 

randomPlayer is meant to be a Player.

 

Trill Then you would have to get the player's name.

 

So I'd use Bukkit.getPlayerExact()? Not sure how to code that yet. Not so sure how to get it to work. Any help?

 

Trill Use the Player#getName() method.

 

How would I make it take that name and put it in the Broadcasted Message then?

 

Trill Use concatenation with the player's name and the message in the Bukkit#broadcastMessage(String) method.

 

All of it.

 

ChipDev
Thanks... Really helps.

 

Trill you clearly know nothing about Java. Please take some time to learn Java BEFORE Bukkit. Bukkit is an API used in Java (which I'm sure you don't know what that means, but owell).

 

I will Monkey_Swag

ChipDev
Like this?

Code:java

 Random random = new Random();
int playernumber = random.nextInt(Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers.size());
Player player = Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers().get(randomPlayer);
player.getName();
Bukkit.broadcastMessage("Win1" + player.getName() + "Win2");
random.nextInt(4);

Where Win1 & Win2 are both text lines editable in the config.yml

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

 

Good.
•why the last line?
randomPlayer does not exist, change it to playernumber.

 

ChipDev
Still Errors in Eclipse
Scroll up to understand why the last line was put in.

Changed to playernumber: Cannot invoke get(int) on the array type Player[]
Hmm... that would make sense if it worked.

ChipDev
These are the errors in the Java Code:
http://gyazo.com/5c505da3069d3687ee9603fa6406918c
getOnlinePlayers cannot be resolved or is not a field
Cannot invoke get(int) on the array type Player[]

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

 

Learn a little more java :3
Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers --> Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers()
get is not a Player[] method.

 

ChipDev
Ok I coded this is and I hope it works:

Code:java

public class Win extends BukkitRunnable {
LuckyWinner plugin;
 
public Win(final LuckyWinner plugin) {
this.plugin = plugin;
}
 
@Override
public void run()
{
Random random = new Random();
int playernumber = random.nextInt(Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers.size());
Player player = Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers().get(playernumber);
player.getName();
Bukkit.broadcastMessage("Win1" + player.getName() + "Win2");
random.nextInt(4);
e.getPlayer().getInventory().addItem(new ItemStack(Material.DIAMOND_BLOCK, 384));
e.getPlayer().getInventory().addItem(new ItemStack(Material.EMERALD_BLOCK, 384));
}
}
 

Still a few errors, but I'll fix them on the mean time.
This might look OP but it is for a prison server.

 

No, you copy pasted.

Code:java

public class Win extends BukkitRunnable {
LuckyWinner plugin;
 
public Win(final LuckyWinner plugin) {
this.plugin = plugin;
}
 
@Override
public void run()
{
Random random = new Random();
int playernumber = random.nextInt(Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers.size());
Player player = Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers().get(playernumber);
player.getName();
Bukkit.broadcastMessage("Win1" + player.getName() + "Win2");
random.nextInt(4);
e.getPlayer().getInventory().addItem(new ItemStack(Material.DIAMOND_BLOCK, 384));
e.getPlayer().getInventory().addItem(new ItemStack(Material.EMERALD_BLOCK, 384));
}
}
 

This makes it so it has 2 players who win.
EDIT: Why extend bukkitrunnable?

 

ChipDev
I am extending bukkitrunnable because this class is running off my Main class which has a clock on it. And where did that first "quote" come from. I never typed that code. This is confusing.

Win1 & win2 are just lines of text in the config so that the playername is in the middle. They aren't 2 different people that win. Hope that clarifies it. FYI look at previously said posts before typing things in.

 

Merge those posts please, you used 2 bumps to give me 2 threads. There is an edit button.
You typed it in:

 

ChipDev
Sorry about that. Wasn't paying attention...
Ok so now I need to fix the two errors.
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Code Errors:
http://gyazo.com/5c505da3069d3687ee9603fa6406918c
getOnlinePlayers cannot be resolved or is not a field
Cannot invoke get(int) on the array type Player[]

 

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Collection.html

These links will help you solve your problem as these forums shouldn't be used to help answer simple syntax errors. Bukkit requires the knowledge of Java which you don't have enough of.

 

Thanks for the help on coding the main part of the plugin! I'll fix the syntax errors myself

 

Look at my code above: I did not use get(int)..
I used this:

Code:java

Player[] player = Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers();
Player win = player[number];

Oops, I messed up above and put my code in your quote

 

ChipDev
That's what I thought.

 

Why is teej107 the only one in this thread with a brain cell?

Stop spoon feeding him when he does not understand it.

The first thing to do is learn Java if you have not done so already. Make sure you make yourself accustomed to the principles of Object Oriented Programming. After that, check out the Bukkit Plugin Tutorial. It's a basic tutorial that covers about 90% of plugin-related programming.

For information regarding the interface, refer to the Bukkit API.