Plugin Help txt files

So i recently made my first plugin. Its an auto broadcaster. It stores all messages in a txt file that is supposed to generate in a folder called "Broadcast" when you install the plugin but I dont know how to make this automatic. When i create the folder myself the plugin works and its awesome but I want it to create automatically.. can anyone give me the code to do that or help? thanks if you need I can include all the source code.

Code:java

package me.takedown.Broadcast;
 
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.LineNumberReader;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.ChatColor;
import org.bukkit.command.Command;
import org.bukkit.command.CommandSender;
import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
import org.bukkit.plugin.PluginDescriptionFile;
import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
 
public class Broadcast extends JavaPlugin {
    public static Broadcast plugin;
    public final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("Minecraft");
    public static int currentLine = 0; // Line number of count
    public static int tid = 0;
    public static int running = 1;
    public static long interval = 10;
 
 
    @Override
    public void onDisable() {
        PluginDescriptionFile pdfFile = this.getDescription();
        this.logger.info(pdfFile.getName() + " is now disabled.");
 
    }
 
    @Override
    public void onEnable() {
        PluginDescriptionFile pdfFile = this.getDescription();
        this.logger.info(pdfFile.getName() + " version " + pdfFile.getVersion() + "is enabled.");
 
        tid = Bukkit.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncRepeatingTask(this,  new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    broadcastMessages("plugins/Broadcast/messages.txt");
                } catch (IOException e) {
            }
        }
    }, 0, interval * 120);
 
    }
 
 
    public static void broadcastMessages(String fileName) throws IOException {
        FileInputStream fs;
        fs = new FileInputStream(fileName);
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fs));
        for(int i = 0; i < currentLine; ++i)
            br.readLine();
        String line =br.readLine();
        line = line.replaceAll("&f", ChatColor.WHITE + "");
        line = line.replaceAll("&e", ChatColor.YELLOW + "");
        line = line.replaceAll("&d", ChatColor.LIGHT_PURPLE + "");
        line = line.replaceAll("&a", ChatColor.GREEN + "");
        Bukkit.getServer().broadcastMessage(ChatColor.LIGHT_PURPLE + "[Broadcast]" + ChatColor.WHITE + line);
        LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(new FileReader(new File(fileName)));
        lnr.skip(Long.MAX_VALUE);
        int lastLine = lnr.getLineNumber();
        if(currentLine + 1 == lastLine + 1) {
            currentLine = 0;
        } else {
            currentLine++;
        }
    }
 
    public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd, String commandLabel, String[] args) {
 
 
        if (commandLabel.equalsIgnoreCase("stobroadcast")) {
            if(running == 1) {
                Bukkit.getServer().getScheduler().cancelTask(tid);
                Player player = (Player) sender;
                player.sendMessage("Cancelled broadcasts");
                running = 0;
            } else {
                Player player = (Player) sender;
                player.sendMessage("They aren't running!");
            }   
        }
        else if (commandLabel.equalsIgnoreCase("startbroadcast")); {
            if(running == 1) {
                Player player = (Player) sender;
                player.sendMessage("They are still running!");
            } else {   
                tid = Bukkit.getScheduler().scheduleSyncRepeatingTask(this, new Runable());
                    public void run(); {
                        try {
                            broadcastMessages("plugins/Broadcast/messages.txt");       
                        } catch (IOException e) {   
 
 
                        }
                    }, 0, interval * 120);
                Player player = (Player) sender
                player.sendMessage("Started broadcasts.");
                running = 1;
            }
        }
 
        return false;
 
        }
 
    private void run() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
    }
    }
 
 

 

It looks like you are following a tutorial that has A LOT of bad habits. Try taking a look at this thread as coding without these bad habits will help!

As for your file, look into how Bukkit manages configs with YAML.

 

thanks! I will check out both of those threads and hope I get it all right