Colour codes

Hey there!

In some other plugins I have looked upon, in the config file sometimes they have an option to let you use colour codes (&1, &2, &a, &b, etc.). Now looking upon that, how would I go about using those colour codes in just say a MOTD when the player joins? Would I first get the codes from the config file and then assign those to a ChatColour, or what would I do?

Thanks!

 

I think something like

Code:

 String message = getConfig().getString("Message")();
      message = message.replace("&6", ChatColor.GOLD());

 

String message = <your config message here>
message = message.replaceAll("&1", ChatColor.GREEN + "");

Of course it doesn't have to be 1 with green, you can make ti whatever you want.

 

So essentially I could make it so that if the person puts in '&GREEN', it does ChatColor.GREEN? Okay, cool then. Thanks guys for the info.

 

The most convenient way for you is to use the built-in ChatColor method translateAlternateColorCodes:

Code:

String coloredMessage = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', message);

That will replace color codes denoted with the given char (& in this case) with the appropiate ChatColor (they are represented with a §, by the way).

You can't do something like "&GREEN" with that method, but it's really easy for you to do and it follows the standards.

 

Or you can throw this function in your code somewhere:

static String colorize(String string) { return string.replaceAll("(?i)&([a-k0-9])", "\u00A7$1"); }

Then just put colorize() around any string where you want to include color codes (&0 - &f)