Countdown!

Hello, fellow coders.

I'm very new to this whole Minecraft plugin dev, even to java itself, but I hope I can get some help.

So here's what I'm trying to do in the onCommand() method in my Main class:

if (label.equalsIgnoreCase("start")) {
// INSERT TIMER HERE
myMethod();
}

My plan was: A player types "/start" and the plugin waits 5 seconds before executing method "myMethod()".

The problem is: I want it to send a message in the chat for every second passed.
So the output would be something like:

Starting in 5...
Starting in 4...
Starting in 3...
Starting in 2...
Starting in 1...
*execute myMethod here*

Thanks in advance!

 

@MacBananaz Use a for loop with a delayed task. You can set up a delayed task like this:

Code:

Bukkit.getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(plugin, new Runnable() {
                    public void run() {
                        //code here
                    }
                }, <time in seconds> * 20L);

Then, with the for loop, you can "count down" like this:

Code:

            for(int i = 5; i >= 0; i--) { // 5 is the amount of time in seconds
                Bukkit.getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(plugin, new Runnable() {
                    public void run() {
                        if(i == 0) { // When the time in seconds is 0 you want your stuff to happen
                            // Your specialized code here
                            return;
                        }
                        Bukkit.broadcastMessage("Starting in " + i);
                    }
                }, i * 20L); // Notice the time in seconds is replaced by i to add the countdown effect
            }

Good luck!