Plugin Development Help!

Alright so, The title pretty much says it all.

I have no clue how to do this but, For a plugin i was wondering how to create a /help command that list all the commands of the plugin and other plugins.

 

Ehh... /help <section> lol...?

 

The_FrosTy_Clan

Bukkit already does this o_o

 

Watto How?

 

I didn't think Bukkit did, but rather Essentials does

 

The_FrosTy_Clan OffLuffy

Oh my mistake c:
I forgot i had essentials installed on my test server

 

OffLuffy Do you know how i can make my own help command, that doesn't require essentials?

 

Watto The_FrosTy_Clan OffLuffy Bukkit does have the package org.bukkit.help, which seems to do exactly what Frosty is trying to do (or at least till a certain extend). A nice point to start from.

 

fireblast709 I meant a way like, If you do /help on essentials, It displays commands and a nice feature like

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Command1 Description



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How would i do this?

 

The_FrosTy_Clan

You could always look here

 

The_FrosTy_Clan I would say something like the following (and note, I've never modified the HelpMap before )

• Get the HelpMap (Bukkit.getHelpMap())
• Clear it (HelpMap#clear())
• Generate a bunch of IndexHelpTopics which you want on the first page when you do /help (A List would keep them sorted)
• If you want, you could even attach IndexHelpTopics to those, to create a deeper structure (for example, have a section 'Commands', a section 'Reporting hackers', etc. How you fill that in, is all up to you )
• Get the default page and invoke setTopicsCollection(Collection) with your Collection of IndexHelpTopics you would like to display on the first page. You can get this default page by calling getHelpTopic("").
• ...and that should be all.

A few notes:

• Till a certain extend this should be possible with help.yml alone. Of course, if you want to have it a bit dynamic, a plugin should give you that freedom.
• For commands there is a separate class you might want to look at, it could save you some time: GenericCommandHelpTopic.
• The two HelpTopic extending classes are extendable and could be used to create your own HelpTopic extensions, in the case you want even more control.
• [this one is targeted at new developers] If people are confused about the use of Collection, a Collection is just a List or Set (in fact, Collection is a super class - or call them parent classes if you want - of Lists and Sets). You have probably seen them around as ArrayList and HashSet respectively.

 

fireblast709 I just looked at this page, I am using player.sendMessage node and displaying the commands of my plugin, I may try what you said, I will have to read up on it .

Thanks,

Tyler