Sign colors

How to make sign colors, like green text on sign

 

Wingas I think the ChatColor enum works on signs. Try it?

 

It doesn't

 

then can you give this poor guy an answer?

 

Pizza371
Wingas
§a

For example: "§aThis is a test message"

 

macboinc apprentally you don't know how the chatcolor enum works then.
The enum works fine, use it.

 

i want to make like if i on sign write [Hello], then its changes text and color, its hard?

 

Stop judging people you don't even know. And yes, I use that chatcolor enum all the time.
Like so:

Code:java

Player p = Bukkit.getServer().getPlayer("Necrodoom");
 
p.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "Hey, " + ChatColor.YELLOW + "Necrodoom," + ChatColor.RED + " Why don't you stop being presumptuous and impetuous");

 

Just use §number or ChatColor.COLOR
I'm felling the fight hehehe

 

macboinc Then you should already know that ChatColor already uses §, and thus works fine on signs.

 

I personally like '§' better, so ?

 

macboinc Yes, because, you told Pizza371 that it doesnt actually work, when in fact it does, and just because you like it, doesnt mean you need to enforce bad practice on people.

 

macboinc

Yes, because there are objective reasons that ChatColor.<color> is better, namely:
1. It is implementation independant, i.e. if Minecraft were to change the color codes, Bukkit would update, and your code would still work fine, whereas the section character implementation would break.
2. Using the section character decreases code readability, making code harder to maintain, and meaning less obvious, also requiring anyone else looking at the code to look the color code each time they want to use it.

So yes, encouraging bad programming practices and telling people things don't work when actually they do is considered bad practice.

Ninja'd by Necrodoom

 

Hm? I though it would be colorless even with the section sign unless you used ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes and added it as the character...

 

ZanderMan9 That basically turns a symbol to §

 

Necrodoom I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at...
But if you want to color signs ingame, you'll need to listen on SignChangeEvent and set each line to formatted version.
Use this I guess:

Code:java

ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', message);

 

ZanderMan9

What he's saying is that all translateAlternateColorCodes(Character char, String message) does is:

message.replace(char, "§");

 

ZanderMan9 What i meant is, if you want to write a message on a sign, these 3 things would be identical, but the first one would be the best practice one if you make a new message, and the third if you take an existing message:
String message;
message = ChatColor.RED + "Hello!";
message = "§cHello!";
message = ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', "&cHello!");

 

So wait... All chars would become the string you enter?
I've been using it in a completely different way....
Player uses a command, I take and build the args into a string, use translateAlt.... on it and then broadcast it....
And if they say &6Message it comes out as Message. The code is the same as I posted above...

Edit: Excuse me, what you said just confused me further... I've been doing it right all along

 

ZanderMan9 Yeah, basically use either 1 or 3 based on the context of what you need.