Modifying chat without messing up other plugins' modifications

My plugin changes the chat color using the AsyncPlayerChatEvent to get the message and add the correct color code to the name and to the message. One person told me that now, his prefix from EssentialsChat is now gone, likely due to the fact that the plugin is making changes to the message.

This is my class file that listens for the Chat event.

Code:

package com.x1machinemaker1x.colorchatting;

import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler;
import org.bukkit.event.Listener;
import org.bukkit.event.player.AsyncPlayerChatEvent;

public class PlayerChat
  implements Listener
{
  private ColorChatting plugin;
  
  public PlayerChat(ColorChatting pl)
  {
    this.plugin = pl;
  }
  
  @EventHandler
  public void onPlayerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent e)
  {
    ChatColor messageColor;
    if (this.plugin.getConfig().getString(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".chatcolor") == null)
    {
      ChatColor messageColor = ChatColor.WHITE;
      this.plugin.getConfig().set(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".chatcolor", "f");
      this.plugin.saveConfig();
    }
    else
    {
      messageColor = ChatColor.getByChar(this.plugin.getConfig().getString(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".chatcolor"));
    }
    ChatColor nameColor;
    if (this.plugin.getConfig().getString(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".namecolor") == null)
    {
      ChatColor nameColor = ChatColor.WHITE;
      this.plugin.getConfig().set(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".namecolor", "f");
      this.plugin.saveConfig();
    }
    else
    {
      nameColor = ChatColor.getByChar(this.plugin.getConfig().getString(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".namecolor"));
    }
    ChatColor chatStyle;
    if (!this.plugin.getConfig().isSet(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".chatstyle"))
    {
      ChatColor chatStyle = ChatColor.RESET;
      this.plugin.getConfig().set(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".chatstyle", "None");
      this.plugin.saveConfig();
    }
    else
    {
      if (this.plugin.getConfig().getString(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".chatstyle").equalsIgnoreCase("None"))
      {
        e.setFormat(nameColor + e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ": " + messageColor + e.getMessage());
        return;
      }
      chatStyle = ChatColor.getByChar(this.plugin.getConfig().getString(e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ".chatstyle"));
    }
    e.setFormat(nameColor + e.getPlayer().getDisplayName() + ": " + messageColor + chatStyle + e.getMessage());
  }
}

 

@X1machinemaker1X
You are hard coding the format, overriding all medications that essentials has done. You can't do that if you want all the colors and prefixes.

What are you trying to achieve? There is most likely a better way.

 

Well, each player picks, through a gui, their chat color, their name color, and their chat style. The choices are saved, per player in a config file, and are using in the above mentioned playerchatevent class.

 

@X1machinemaker1X
In that case, do the following:

1. When you want to change the format
2. Get the format, and replace the first instance of the player's name with the chatcolor plugin the player's name.
   
3. After that, use that format to find the split between the name and the message (normally, its : ) and add the message color and style after it.
4. Set that as the format.

 

@Zombie_Striker

Thank you that should work. I'll try it out now.


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