ASyncPlayerChatEvent

So I am having trouble setting up ASyncPlayerChatEvent. Since I am new to plugin development the API page isn't much help. My goal is to make a simpler way of doing italics (&o) in chat. This works by typing in:

Code:

I *want* to make this in italics.

Where the first * is changed to &o and the second * is changed to &r (or if there is a way to use colors from before the italics i.e. &6 colors the whole message including the italics).

So far I have this in my separate class file:

Code:

package me.XplosionInc.ArtexCore.Chat;

import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler;
import org.bukkit.event.Listener;
import org.bukkit.event.player.AsyncPlayerChatEvent;

public class Italics implements Listener {

    @EventHandler
    public void onChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent italics) {
        Player player = italics.getPlayer();
        String name = player.getName();
    }
}

I have been told to get the message then split("*") but I have no idea on how to do this.

 

@Polishgaming There are a couple of ways, here is one (probably the simplest):
You have to figure out how to implement it yourself.
You could split at each asterisk (keep in mind it's a regular expression character), then use a for-loop on each one.

Code:

for (int i = 0; i < splitString.length; i++)

Then use the modulus operator like

Code:

if ((i % 2) == 1)

If that is true then add §o, if not then add §r (or whatever color was used before)

 

If I am getting you right, you want chat colors using this : "&", symbol right ?

So you can use :

Code:

ChatColor.AlternateColorCodes('&', "&6This will be in gold !")

// I wrote this right here so the AlternateColorCodes may be different. Hope I helped :)

 

I dont know if this gonna work what you are doing but what i use is String text = ChatColor.GOLD + "This text is going to be gold";

My code will work like this

Code:

@EventHandler
public void onChat(ASyncPlayerChatEvent event) {
Player player = event.getPlayer();
String message = event.getMessage();//I dont know if this method is called like this check it when u do it :D Kappa
if(message.contains("*")) {
message.replaceFirst("*", ChatColor.ITALIC + "");//U do + "" because replace first needs return string so u getting around that :>
message.replace("*", ChatColor.RED + "");//same here
}
event.getRecipients().clear(); //doesnt send raw message to the players
for(Player i : Bukkit.getOnlinePlayers()) {
i.sendMessage("<"+player.getName()+">: " + message); //sends message to all players :>
}
}

I hope this helped :> P.S. I didn't tested it so if it doesn't work just say me because there are couple places to fix Kappa ;D

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

@Kudze You assume that they only use bold one time.
This would work on all occurrences:

Code:

@EventHandler
public void onAsyncPlayerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent event) {
    // Basic "*" replace
    String[] s = event.getMessage().split("\\*");
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
        if ((i % 2) == 1) {
            s[i] = "§o" + s[i] + "§r";
        }
    }
    String msg = StringUtils.join(s);
    // You could set the color/format of the message here
    event.setMessage(msg);
}