How to change chat.

Is there a way to modify chat so a player types *message* it comes out as message?

The first * is changed to &o for italics then the last * is the &r.

Thanks.

 

Well 1rst of all what do you imagine how it looks at the end. Or tell me what you acctually mean

 

AsycPlayerChatEvent?

 

Use the AsyncPlayerChatEvent
Store the message with event.getMessage() as a string
Then use

Code:

msg = msg.replaceFirst("\\*", "§o").replaceFirst("\\*", "§r");

It will replace the first * (\\* because its a special character in regex) with §o and then the first (the next because the first is already replaced) with §r
Finally use event.setMessage(msg) to set the new chat message

 

Code:

@EventHandler
    public void onChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent e) {
        Player p = e.getPlayer();
        String name = p.getDisplayName();
        e.setFormat(ChatColor.RED + "[ADMIN]" + ChatColor.WHITE + name + ": " + e.getMessage());
    }

 

why did you do that?
it has no relevance and