/Rules Plugin

This is my first plugin and I am trying to create a plugin that when someone says /Rules or /rules it displays, from a text file, all the rules of the server.

Here is my code for my two pages:

Code:

package com.bukkit.shawn.Basic;

import java.io.File;
import org.bukkit.Server;
import org.bukkit.event.Event;
import org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile;
import org.bukkit.plugin.PluginLoader;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
import org.bukkit.plugin.PluginManager;

/**
 * Basic for Bukkit
 *
 * @author Saturisk
 */

public class Basic extends JavaPlugin{

    private final BasicPlayerListener playerListener = new BasicPlayerListener(this);

    public Basic(PluginLoader pluginLoader, Server instance, PluginDescriptionFile desc, File folder, File plugin, ClassLoader cLoader)
    {
        super(pluginLoader, instance, desc, folder, plugin, cLoader);
      }

    @Override

    public void onDisable() {

    }

    @Override

    public void onEnable() {

        PluginManager pm = getServer().getPluginManager();

        pm.registerEvent(Event.Type.PLAYER_COMMAND, this.playerListener, Event.Priority.Normal, this);

 
    }
 
}

that's my basic and this is my player command thing:

Code:

//The Package
package com.bukkit.shawn.Basic;

import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerChatEvent;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerListener;

public class BasicPlayerListener extends PlayerListener{
     public static Basic plugin;
      public BasicPlayerListener(Basic instance) {
            plugin = instance;
        }

      public void onPlayerCommand(PlayerChatEvent event) {

            String[] split = event.getMessage().split(" ");

            Player player = event.getPlayer();

            if ((split[0].equalsIgnoreCase("/rules"))
                    || (split[0].equalsIgnoreCase("/Rules"))) {

                System.out.println( txtFile.getName() ;
            }

        }
}

I know the txtFile thing isn't right, is there an easier way to do this? This is as far as i got and i can't find anything about it.

 

Code:

split[0].equalsIgnoreCase("/rules")) ||(split[0].equalsIgnoreCase("/Rules")))

1) You dont need both /rules and /Rules, IgnoreCase is used to ignore case sensitive letters so you only need split[0].equalsIgnoreCase("/rules"))

2) Make something like this

Code:

 if (chat[0].equalsIgnoreCase("/rules")) {
player.sendMessage(ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + "Dont grief !!");
player.sendMessage(ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + "Dont eat my cake!!!");

 

Okay, do i have to extend it? Or could i fit this into one, how would i do that?
AND how could i get it to read from a text file, if possible so i could change the code easily or could i just make a class over it?
--- merged: Feb 24, 2011 1:11 AM ---
It has enable and disable, i just want it so when someone does it, it goes
--- merged: Feb 24, 2011 1:14 AM ---
Sorry to post again, but it's having an error with the "chat[0]" how do i fix it? It has the red underliner on chat

 

Watch samkios tutorials:
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/basic-bukkit-plugin-tutorial.1339/
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/intermediate-bukkit-plugin-tutorial.2548/

I can't tell you what error is it, may be you forgot to close the statment

Code:

 if (chat[0].equalsIgnoreCase("/rules")) {
player.sendMessage(ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + "Dont grief !!");
player.sendMessage(ChatColor.DARK_AQUA + "Dont eat my cake!!!");
}

 

Is there anychance of you being able to do this but just with /donate by changing the basic scripts?

 

Me personally?
Just change the /rules to /donate and you should be set

 

To get it to read from a textfile:

Code:

//Put this in your onEnable method, it creates the file
 (new File(directory)).mkdir();

 try {
    (new File(directory + "rules.txt")).createNewFile();
    }
    catch (IOException ex) {
      log.info("Could not create rules file.");
    }

   //In the PlayerListener, create a method called read, this is what it should look like:
    public ArrayList<String> read() {
     String lineString;
     FileInputStream stream;
     ArrayList<String> readList = new ArrayList<String>();
    try {
         stream = new FileInputStream(Basic.directory + "rules.txt");
         DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(stream);

         BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
                 lineString = br.readLine();
         for(int i=0; lineString != null; i++) {
             readList.set(i, lineString);
                         lineString = lineString + "\n";
         }
         return readList;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
 }

 }

 //And in PlayerListener, where you check if the person says /rules, put this
 ArrayList<String> temp = read();
 int size = temp.size();
 for(int i=0; i<size; i++) {
 String msg = temp.get(i);
 player.sendMessage(msg); //I assume you already have the player as event.getPlayer();

Also, my way is probably overly complicated. Though this is how I do it!

EDIT: It's also un-tested. Most of my code that deals with files fails anyway, but it would be worth a try.