[TUTORIAL] Wordwrapping long messages

Sometimes you have to send a long message using Player.sendMessage(). If you do it normally, it would be cut like this:

Code:

"This is a long message. This is a long message. This is a lo
ng message. This is a long message."

Nobody wants that, right? To prevent that, you need to wordwrap it. If we do that, it cuts like this:

Code:

"This is a long message. This is a long message. This is a long
message. This is a long message."

Much better, right?
To do this, I have made a short function for you guys that returns a String array with the lines correctly wrapped. Since sendMessage() also takes a String array, it's as simple as just sending whatever this function returns.

So here it is:

Code:java

public static String[] wordWrap(String s) {
    return ChatPaginator.wordWrap(s, ChatPaginator.GUARANTEED_NO_WRAP_CHAT_PAGE_WIDTH);
}

Hope you like it!

 

Clever.

 

Oddly, I've never had a problem where Player.sendMessage() split the string in the middle of a word. Still a cool find in case I ever have that problem!