Minecraft Timer with for?

Hey... me again...
I just wanna know how i create a timer so every 5 Seconds a Player gets a Message

I know it works somehow with 20 ticks a second so 20 * 60 = 1200 (1 Minute) but how i use it elsewhere as in my Mainclass for example in a command?

Kind regards,
- The Cookieunity

 

You could just use syncRepeatingTask, set 20L and 20L as its delay thing. There you go. It will repeat every 1 second.

 

Approach I would take:

* Create a new class, called whatever you like, for this example I will call it "MessageSenderTask".

PHP:

public class MessageSenderTask {

* Secondly, make this class extend "BukkitRunnable"

PHP:

public class MessageSenderTask extends BukkitRunnable {

* You will get an error, but that's fine.
* You need some variables inside this class, Player player; etc...

PHP:

public class MessageSenderTask extends BukkitRunnable {

  private Player player;

  public MessageSenderTask(Player player) {
    this.player = player;
  }

}

* Inside the class, make a new void method called exactly "run", this will remove the error. In this method you will do most of your code.

PHP:

public class MessageSenderTask extends BukkitRunnable {

  private Player player;

  public MessageSenderTask(Player player) {
    this.player = player;
  }

  public void run() {
    if(player!=null) {
      player.sendMessage("5 seconds passed, send message.");
    }
  }

}

Now. Create a new MessageSenderTask object with the player passed in the parameter.

PHP:

public class AnyClass {

  public void anyMethod() {
    Player p = a player;
    JavaPlugin main = mainClass;
    MessageSenderTask task = new MessageSenderTask(p);
    //make it repeat every 5 second
    task.runTaskTimerAsynchronously(main, 0L, 20*5L)
  }

}