Development Assistance Plugin Coding Problem

I am creating a plugin, i need more than 1 color for it, the code for a normal command such as "/server" which says to you "Hi (Player) welcome to the server!" in a certain color the code would be "sender.sendMessage(ChatClor.(COLOR) + "Hi (Player) welcome to the server!")); but how would i make it multiple colors such as "Hi (Player) welcome to the server!" AND also when i allow people to modify what it says to you in a config they can add in color with &(color) how do i let them ?

 

@mc_myster Or, for your original problem, it helps to remember that ChatColor.<color> is a String. So you can do ChatColor.AQUA + "Hi "+ ChatColor.BLUE + player.getName() + ChatColor.AQUA + " welcome to the server!"

 

Oh yeh thx allot, i forgot about that !

Thanks allot

EDIT by Timtower: merged posts

 

@mc_myster

You don't need to use color codes anymore in general color messages, you can use:

sender.sendMessage("§<color integer from minecraft><message> §<color integer from minecraft><message>");

§ Is used the exact same way in Bukkit coding, as & ingame.

 

@timtower

Minecraft very rarely changes it, all the time I have played minecraft (2 years about)... Minecraft has never changed it... It only makes the job easier to use the method I stated...

 

@timtower ChatColor enum was made because people would rather use an enum than memorize the color codes and use the US-International keyboard to type or copy/paste the § symbol. However, if your keyboard is set up that way already or you don't mind, and you've already memorized the hex sequence for colors, then it'd be a good idea to just use that because Minecraft has NEVER changed it, and it takes up less space.