Color codes

Yes it's me again...

I was expecting to be able to concat() a ChatColor.COLOUR to a string but evidently not.
What is the done thing for doing this?

 

You can use .toString() on a ChatColor to get §[char] which you can then concatenate

 

Chinwe Awesome! Thanks

Chinwe

I'm using this code, but its throwing a NullPointerException error. I'm iterating through all the chars in the char array (which was converted from a string). If theres a & then it looks for the next char and if its a correct number it concats the (ChatColor.COLOUR).toString to a new string. Otherwise it just concats the char.

Code:java

        for (int i = 0; i < message.length; i++){
            if (message[i] == '&'){
                switch (message[i + 1]){
                    case 'b': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.AQUA).toString());
                    case '0': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.BLACK).toString());
                    case '9': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.BLUE).toString());
                    case '3': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.DARK_AQUA).toString());
                    case '1': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.DARK_BLUE).toString());
                    case '8': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.DARK_GRAY).toString());
                    case '2': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.DARK_GREEN).toString());
                    case '5': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.DARK_PURPLE).toString());
                    case '4': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.DARK_RED).toString());
                    case '6': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.GOLD).toString());
                    case '7': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.GRAY).toString());
                    case 'a': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.GREEN).toString());
                    case 'd': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.LIGHT_PURPLE).toString());
                    case 'c': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.RED).toString());
                    case 'f': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.WHITE).toString());
                    case 'e': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.YELLOW).toString());
                    case 'm': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.STRIKETHROUGH).toString());
                    case 'l': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.BOLD).toString());
                    case 'k': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.MAGIC).toString());
                    case 'n': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.UNDERLINE).toString());
                    case 'o': newMessage.concat((ChatColor.ITALIC).toString());
                }   
            } else {
                newMessage.concat(Character.toString(message[i]));
            }
        }
 
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EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Eeeeh what are you trying to do? Convert all &[char] to a ColorCode? If so, use

Code:

String translatedMessage = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', originalMessage);

 

Chinwe Well that makes everything a f**kload easier

 

Scullyking XD so funny