Solved Adding Prefix to Chat Message

Hey guys, how can I add a prefix to people's names on chat messages?

 

Just put this into a listener

Code:java

    @EventHandler
    public void onPlayerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent e){
        e.setFormat("[PREFIX] %s : %s");
    }

and replace [PREFIX] with the prefix of the user chatting.

 

Is there a reason why my messages are no-longer showing up in the Multicraft chat now? They are only showing up in console now o.o

 

since i dont know what multicraft is i cant help you .Is this a chat plugin? Then you have to look how you change the format with this plugin.

 

It is a server control panel actually.
http://www.multicraft.org/

 

WiseHollow mmhh thats interesting... Does message get displayed in the console and in minecraft? Just not in multicraft?

 

MiniDigger It gets displayed in both yeah.

Here is what my format is

Code:

private String mayorFormat = ChatColor.GOLD + "[Mayor]" + ChatColor.RESET + "%1$s: %2$s";

 

WiseHollow
Whats your listener look like?

 

Then I think its a issue of multicraft since I dont know what you could do wrong . But if you post your listener here I can take a look on it.

 

MiniDigger MineDoubleSpace

Here is my listener. I find it odd that it would do this because, permission-type plugins that add group-prefixes work perfectly xD

Code:

private String peasantFormat = ChatColor.GREEN + "[Peasant]" + ChatColor.RESET + "%1$s: %2$s";
private String citizenFormat = ChatColor.BLUE + "[Citizen]" + ChatColor.RESET + "%1$s: %2$s";
private String mayorFormat = ChatColor.GOLD + "[Mayor]" + ChatColor.RESET + "%1$s: %2$s";
 
@EventHandler
    public void playerChat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent event)
    {
        if (Town.getPlayerTown(event.getPlayer().getName()) != null)
        {
            event.setFormat(mayorFormat);
            return;
        }
        if (ProjectUtilities.getPlayerHomeTown(event.getPlayer().getName()) != null)
        {
            event.setFormat(citizenFormat);
            return;
        }
     
        event.setFormat(peasantFormat);
    }

 

WiseHollow mmh that looking fine too. Ill take a look at how group manager does this

WiseHollow it is using setFormat too. This has to be a bug in multicraft. You should contac their support and see what they say about this. I dont know how the chat tap work, so i cant help you with that

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

 

Thank you for taking a look at that for me I'll contact their support right away.

 

WiseHollow no problem

 

WiseHollow
Maybe you could cancel the message and then get it and broadcast it with
Bukkit.broadcastmessage or bukkit.broadcast <---- don't know which one it is

 

MiniDigger I got a reply from Multicraft and they said,

I wonder how it works with Group Manager but not when I do it...

 

WiseHollow they said you can change the parsing of the msgs in the .jar.conf file. Look into it and try to change it to [Prefix] <name> Message or something like this

 

Code:

string dn = p.getDisplayName();
p.setDisplayName("PREFIX_GOES_HERE"+dn);

 

FireBreath14 nice solution . Didnt thought about it since it works for me with changing the format

 

Yeah but is it possible to make chat messages do not show up in console?

 

kevin3220 http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/funny-things/

Feel free to decompile it

 

You are brilliant. Thank you very much.

 

While this is solved, aswell as a very old post, I'd like to add on to this. While it's easy to use the "setDisplayName" method it can result in some problems. Minecraft usernames can be up to 17 characters long, any longer and it will mess up your server. The chat format message is a bit more difficult, yet it's results yield a better performing server.
I posted this in case anyone else views this thread. I highly recommend you go with the chat format method.