What event is used to test if a player deals damage?

Question in title.

 

Zankz
There is no event, try using the entitydamagebyentity event or entity damage event and use one of the entity methods to return the player that deals the damage. I think it's e.getDamager();

 

I have tried this but it did not work
What code did u use for this?

 

Zankz

public void onEvent(EntityDamageByEntityEvent event)

I don't understand what's difficult about this.

 

Zankz
public void entityDamager(EntityDamageByEntityEvent e) {
Entity killer = e.getDamager();

}
Just check to make the killer is an instanceof a player if you're doing anything player specific.

 

Zankz
http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org/bukkit/event/entity/EntityDamageByEntityEvent.html
Also, make sure to show us your code. We can't help much unless you show use what you did.

 

Code:java

  @EventHandler
    public void onEvent(EntityDamageByEntityEvent e){
        Player p = (Player) e.getEntity();
        if (p.getInventory().getItemInHand().getType().equals(Material.IRON_SWORD))
            {
                //Stuff
            }else{
                //Stuff
            }
 
 
    } 

This is my code!

 

Zankz
You're getting the entity which I believe gets the "vicitim" or defender. If you're trying to get the entity that deals the damage just use e.getDamager();

 

Zankz
First check that the entity doing/receiving the damage is a player. If not, you'll receive errors. Then, do anything player-related.

 

Zankz

What if a entity doing the damage was an Arrow? Good luck trying to make a Player out of an Arrow.

 

That would be arrow.getShooter().

 

Yes, however that method is not getting called. And you have to make sure that the entity is a projectile to even call that method. My what if was an example of telling what would happen if you tried to blindly cast an Entity to a Player. You can substitute Arrow out for any other entity in my what if example.

 

make sure you use an if statement to check that the entity is a player and then you can proceed with the code if it is