How do I add plain text (so a plain text label) to my Screen class?

[YooHoo]

I want to add just text to my Screen class. How can I do this?

Edited October 26, 2022 by YooHoo

[warjort]

There are many ways.

For a simple example look at AbstractContainerScreen.renderLabels() used by AbstractContainerScreen.render().

For other examples just search for the usages of Screen.font

[YooHoo]

Thank you! How do I get the center of the screen so I can position the UI right?

[warjort]

int centerX = this.width / 2;
int centerY = this.height / 2;

Where "this" is the screen.

You need to learn how to do your own research instead of asking trivial questions like this and wasting people's time.

There must be a hundred examples of centering and left/right adjusting in the vanilla codebase.

Edited October 27, 2022 by warjort

[YooHoo]

Ok, I will. But, one last thing...

    public TestScreen() {
        super(Component.nullToEmpty("Title for what, though?"));
    }

    PoseStack poseStack = new PoseStack();

    void renderLabel(int screenX, int screenY, String label) {
        this.font.draw(poseStack, label, screenX, screenY, 4210752);
    }

    @Override
    protected void init() {
        renderLabel(100, 100, "Hello, world!");
        super.init();
    }

That is my Screen code ^

@SubscribeEvent @OnlyIn(Dist.CLIENT)
public static void onClientChat(ClientChatEvent event) {
    OpenMessage.LOGGER.info(event.getMessage());
    if(event.getMessage().equals("tap")) {
        Minecraft.getInstance().setScreen(new TestScreen());
    }
}

This is what initiates it ^

 

But, when I say 'tap' in chat (placeholder for now), it doesn't show anything. Why?

 

I think it might be the PoseStack

Edited October 27, 2022 by YooHoo

[warjort]

You need to override the render() method. That is what does the drawing.

You don't do rendering in the screen initialisation.

Look at the vanilla code and try to understand how it works.

e.g. yours sounds similar to the ErrorScreen?.

[YooHoo]

Haha! Basically copying and pasting the code from ErrorScreen gave me results! The chat event seemed to not trigger it so I set up keybinding! Thank you!

Edited October 27, 2022 by YooHoo

[Dumdum]

Yeah, programming with GUI's in Java can be a pain.

I don't know anything about this website, but it may prove useful to your endeavors; https://mcreator.net/wiki/gui-editor.

Seems to host a reservoir of knowledge on minecraft java conventions / designs.