Custom player titles

Purpose: Places a prefix (a title) before the player's name when using yell

Difficulty: 1

Classes Modified: client class

Procedure
Step 1: Replace your current yell command with this:

Code:

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if (command.startsWith("yell")) {
        try {
                if (playerRights >= 1)
                        PlayerHandler.messageToAll = playerTitle[--playerRights] + playerName + ": " + command.substring(5);
                else if (personalTitle != null)
                        PlayerHandler.messageToAll = personalTitle + playerName + ": " + command.substring(5);
                else
                        PlayerHandler.messageToAll = playerName + ": " + command.substring(5);
        } catch(Exception e) {
                sendMessage("Wrong syntax. Use ::yell <message>");
        }
}

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Step 2: Declare these fields:

Code:

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private final String[] playerTitles = {"[Moderator]", "[Administrator]", "[Owner]"};

private String personalTitle = null;

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Step 3: Add these methods if you like. They're optional, but they'll allow you to access fields declared in step 2 from outside of the client class:

Code:

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//Use these methods to get titles when in other classes
public String getPersonalTitle() {
        return personalTitle;
}

public String[] getPlayerTitles() {
        return playerTitles;
}

public String getTitleForRights(int pRights) {
        return playerTitles[--pRights];
}

//Use this method to set the personal title when in other classes
public void setPersonalTitle(String personalTitle) {
        this.personalTitle = personalTitle;
}

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Anyway, that's how you turn a messy tutorial like this: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] into something nice. :)
Oh, and you'll have to make your own command to set personal titles for other players.

Credits: Lothy

Nice

I'm guessing that you are lothy from moparscape?
EDIT: sorry didn't see you sig

Yep. Just posted this for the sake of it - I hate it when people make messy tutorials.

EDIT: Better change my sig actually, seeing as i resigned from both of those positions.

You sed my one was messy lol ? , atleast its alot easier to add in, and it does the exact same thing, i would think people would use mine, rather than yours.., strings are so much easier to use ;)

idk but this is an ok TuT.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by dune [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

You sed my one was messy lol ? , atleast its alot easier to add in, and it does the exact same thing, i would think people would use mine, rather than yours.., strings are so much easier to use ;)

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To be honest, yours is pathetic. For one, it checks all 3 of those if statements. They should be else-ifs, because once it carries out the contents of one statement it need not check the rest.
Secondly, yours builds a new String object every single time the command is used. Strings are completely immutable objects; excessive creation of strings isn't a good thing.
Learn your stuff before talking.

I think Loth knows alot about Java :)

Step 2:

Code:

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private final String[] playerTitles = {"[Moderator]", "[Administrator]", "[Owner]"};

private String personalTitle = null;

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"private final String[] playerTitles" is wrong it should be:
"private final String playerTitles[]"

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Impulser [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

Step 2:

Code:

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private final String[] playerTitles = {"[Moderator]", "[Administrator]", "[Owner]"};

private String personalTitle = null;

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"private final String[] playerTitles" is wrong it should be:
"private final String playerTitles[]"

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Nope, it is not wrong.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Impulser [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

Step 2:

Code:

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private final String[] playerTitles = {"[Moderator]", "[Administrator]", "[Owner]"};

private String personalTitle = null;

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"private final String[] playerTitles" is wrong it should be:
"private final String playerTitles[]"

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Either will work. However the convention is to place the [] after the variable's type, rather then the variable's identifier.