Help With accessing player outside event

so...
i have a player interact event and inside it a cast for the player name.
i need to access the players name from a method outside of the event.
here is the basics of my code:



public void sclick (PlayerInteractEvent event){
Player p = (Player) event.getPlayer();
blue.add(p.getName());
teamclear();
}

private void teamclear() {
blue.remove(p);

}




i try to declare p public but it cant, its only valid modifier is final.
please answer and thank you

 

lrdemolition
Make teamclear require a Player parameter.

 

private void teamclear(p) {
blue.remove(p);

}


like that?
Gater12

 

lrdemolition
I suggest you look at this: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/methods.html

 

thanks, so i would probably cast a string to p and use the string?
Gater12

 

lrdemolition
You can't cast a string to a player ... remove the player's name, which is what is stored. That's like trying to cast a cat to a dog.

 

AoH_Ruthless
you can by:
String pi = (String) e.getPlayer().getName();

but i'm having trouble accessing the string from outside the event(i need the method to use the player name to remove it from a list)

 

lrdemolition
You can, but that's useless casting and bad practice because getName() already returns a string...

You need a global list of players for your team so you can easily add/remove players.
I think you should start by actually learning Java.

 

AoH_Ruthless
which is what i am doing. (i'm 13)
and i think i have 4 public arraylists at the top of my events class(is that global?)

 

lrdemolition
Yes, that is a global variable, known as a field. Fields are generally better as private with getters as accessors, but yes.

 

ok i fixed my problem thanks for the help
AoH_Ruthless