Util SimpleScoreboard - Make pretty scoreboards with ease!

Hello!

Today I made a simple class to easily create scoreboards! You can add text with custom scores, or dont set a score and it will display the scores in the order you add them in. You can also add blank lines, and have lines with up to 48 characters!

Example usage: Link
Code: Link (if you use this, credit would be appreciated )

Example (from the code above):


If you want a feature added, you can always suggest the idea below and I may or may not add it

-Raino

 

RainoBoy97
Maybe scrolling text, i think mineplex has it?

 

ImPhantom
You can use Scroller, by Chinwe

 

RainoBoy97 If you wanted to, you could ask Chinwe and implement it, just to make it a bit easier for beginners.

 

ImPhantom
Once I get home I'll add an update method so you can update a specific score

 

RainoBoy97

This is fantastic. Being able to display text > 16 characters is an amazing opening window for more detailed score boards, thank you for this.

I have some issues that I'd like to try to resolve with this though: I currently want to set variables within the scoreboard, i.e. a timer variable that is consistently counting down every second. However when I try to update the scoreboard every second, there is an conflicting issue with scoreboard.build(); -- it rebuilds the scoreboard over again even when it already exists and then creates this stack trace:

https://gist.github.com/ToniTang/9d4df1f06c61011b0190 (scoreboard.build().txt)

So I figured, why not just reset the scoreboard and create it again (terrible idea, I assumed it'd be very resource unfriendly). When I did this, I resulted in an NPE instead which can be seen again in the gist link above under the second report (scoreboard.reset().txt).

Hope to get this resolved soon, thanks again for such an easy and simple scoreboard manager to use. I love the fact that you can add lines without having to set a score and it'll automatically sort them. Big plus.

 

Thank you, sir!

 

Toni
Don't do .reset() then .build() again, if you're using this and updates it each second, do .reset() then create a completely new one (new SimpleScoreboard()).

 

So that's getting me somewhere, thank you . The only issue now is that the scoreboard is very...flashy. It glitches out and comes back every time there's an reset and new scoreboard made.

Would you be able to have an update allowing scoreboard modification to a certain score? I.e. instead of destroying and recreating the entire thing, would I be able to just simply edit an objective/score instead?

 

Toni
I'll look into that This was just something I threw together for fun!

 

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it. And your fun made something fantastic! I'm still obsessing over the fact that you can have more than 16 characters, it makes the scoreboard like how it should be.

 

Fancy. Imma try using this now.

 

Thank you so much, Raino!

 

One thing I'd like to see-not that big of a feature, and not that impacting-is the ability to use an ampersand instead of a section symbol, it's not that hard, but it would make it easier so you don't have to use alt codes and stuff. Also makes it easier for people that don't have the alt code for the section symbol memorized. Other than that, this library is really nice

 

Stilldabomb
You can use ChatColor.COLOR

Due to the feedback I will update this with some other cool features

 

Oh yeah, I know, but being able to just parse "&2This is a message!" is a lot easier. There's ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', message), it's literally just one line haha.

 

Oh, I missread your post. I thought you ment you didn't want to use §<color code> Sorry!

 

Haha, it's all good!

 

RainoBoy97
Works ok but any idea why it's making the strings 'score' to 'Sc0re' and 'Stats' to 'StaTS'. Also any chance to support spigot because it wasn't working with it when I tried.

I know the kills and such are null

Thanks

 

Ah thanks!,was bored to use dummies!
u awesome!

 

You kind sir, have just made my life easier. Will start incorporating this into all my scoreboard-based plugins.

 

Well i get a error each time a second player joins...
here:

PHP:

[21:03:26 ERROR]: Could not pass event PlayerJoinEvent to Teams v1.5
org.bukkit.event.EventException
        at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.ja
va:320) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.jav
a:62) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.fireEvent(SimplePluginManager.j
ava:486) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.j
ava:471) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.PlayerList.c(PlayerList.java:225) [craft
bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.PlayerList.a(PlayerList.java:116) [craft
bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.LoginListener.c(LoginListener.java:78) [
craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.LoginListener.a(LoginListener.java:42) [
craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.NetworkManager.a(NetworkManager.java:149
) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.ServerConnection.c(SourceFile:134) [craf
tbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.u(MinecraftServer.java:6
55) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.DedicatedServer.u(DedicatedServer.java:2
50) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.t(MinecraftServer.java:5
45) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java
:457) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:6
17) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An objective of name 'πaπlScore'
already exists
        at org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.isTrue(Validate.java:157) ~[craftbuk
kit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R1.scoreboard.CraftScoreboard.registerNew
Objective(CraftScoreboard.java:40) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2
-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R1.scoreboard.CraftScoreboard.registerNew
Objective(CraftScoreboard.java:20) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2
-R0.3-b3020jnks]
        at me.fillpant.pvp.SimpleScoreboard.build(SimpleScoreboard.java:72) ~[?:
?]
        at me.fillpant.pvp.Scoreboard.displayscore(Scoreboard.java:17) ~[?:?]
        at me.fillpant.pvp.teams.pje(teams.java:202) ~[?:?]
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.7.0
_51]
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0
_51]
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[?:1
.7.0_51]
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
        at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.ja
va:318) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.3.jar:git-Bukkit-1.7.2-R0.3-b3020jnks]

EDIT: im ur code i added a if obj != null then create the objective but still hasnt worked

 

mine-care

"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: An objective of name 'πaπlScore' already exists"

EDIT: Take a look at this: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/ut...ty-scoreboards-with-ease.263041/#post-2486809 , the solution for that is a few comments below.

​

 

mine-care
Dont call .build() on the same scoreboard more than once.

 

Nvm i got to make it my own meanwhile, but nice work!

Havent, instead i did only once

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Beautiful.

 

RainoBoy97
Great job on this! I thought I'd might add a few methods to help simplify things and add some JavaDoc comments for users to understand the methods, and that's exactly what I did! Here is the gist

EDIT: If you were wondering why I keep returning the current instance instead of returning void it is so you can do this:

Code:java

SimpleScoreboard ss = new SimpleScoreboard("Title").add("test1").blankLine();
//So on and so on...

 

How would I update a scoreboard?

 

RainoBoy97 I love this little library! It’d be soooo good if you could add a update feature so the scoreboard doesn’t glitch it! Thanks!

 

Alright, so first of all, I really love this. Second, I've been messing around with it and I've added an update method.

* IMPORTANT *
In order for this to work, at the top of the class add this:

Code:java

private Objective obj;

And you should get an error in the build() method, you need to change "Objective obj = scoreboard.WHATEVER" into "obj = scoreboard.WHATEVER".

Now for the update method (No flashing):

Code:java

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
        public void update(String text, Integer score) {
            if (scores.containsKey(text)) {
                scores.put(text, score);
                for (Team t : teams) {
                    if (t.getName() == text) {
                        t.unregister();
                    }
                }
 
                Map.Entry<Team, String> team = createTeam(text);
                OfflinePlayer player = Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer(team.getValue());
                if (team.getKey() != null)
                    team.getKey().addPlayer(player);
                obj.getScore(player).setScore(score);
 
            }
        }