Thread.sleep() In Bukkit?

Hi, I'm making a plugin that must wait before sending players more messages. Example.

Code:java

p.sendMessage("Hi There");
//wait 20 ticks
p.sendMessage("Thiscmessage is 20 ticks later")
//wait 100 ticks
p.sendMessage("Thiscmessage is 100 ticks later")
 

Anyone know how to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated

 

AXCoding
http://wiki.bukkit.org/Scheduler_Programming

 

AXCoding http://wiki.bukkit.org/Scheduler_Programming
Should put you on the right track, look into that and the scheduler's other methods.

 

I'm kind of a visual learner... If anyone could show me an example of how to use this..

Code:java

import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler;
import org.bukkit.event.Listener;
import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerJoinEvent;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
import org.bukkit.scheduler.BukkitRunnable;
import org.bukkit.scheduler.BukkitTask;
 
public final class ExamplePlugin extends JavaPlugin {
 
    @Override
    public void onEnable() {
        new ExampleListener(this);
    }
}
 
class ExampleListener implements Listener {
 
    private final ExamplePlugin plugin;
 
    public ExampleListener(ExamplePlugin plugin) {
        this.plugin = plugin;
        plugin.getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(this, plugin);
    }
 
    @EventHandler
    public void onJoin(PlayerJoinEvent event) {
        // Create the task and schedule to run it once, after 20 ticks
        BukkitTask task = new ExampleTask(this.plugin).runTaskLater(this.plugin, 20);
    }
 
}

Lets say when a player times in the command /sendelayedmessages
It sends them Hi
then 20 ticks later
Whats going on
then 20 ticks later
last thing?

Thanks, sorry for giving you soo much work
Gater12 xTigerRebornx

 

AXCoding
On the end of one runnable just call another runnable with a delay and another message. Or make the runnable just run a repeating task every certain amount of seconds with set messages. Once it completed the amount of runs you want, cancel the runnable.

 

AXCoding
In your case you want a repeating task running at a 20 tick interval that cancels itself out after 2 runs. You could use anonymous BukkitRunnable if you're just doing something small.

Along-the-lines-of:

Code:java

new BukkitRunnable(){
    counter field
    public void run(){
        if counter is something do something
        other checks if necessary
        increment/decrement counter
        if counter is at some value cancel the task
        cancel();
    }
}.runTaskTimer(pluginInstance, delayLong, intervalLong);

 

AXCoding
http://google.com

Lots of snippets

Give up?

https://www.google.com/search?q=scheduler+examples+bukkit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

 

Why not use a compair between the server time in milliseconds?, if its for a event with chat I kinda think a scheduler looks messy unless you want to perse listen to the server ticks.

so you could do something like:

Date toTime = new Date(System.currentTimeMillies());
toTime.setSeconds(toTime.getSeconds()+20);

Long time = toTime.getTime()

then when somebody chats you could check if System.current.... Is higher than the value

But since the setSeconds is kinda unsafe because it sometimes creates a negative integer you may want to look in the TimeUnit system in the javadocs/google.