Tile Entites, GUIs and player-entered information

[Flenix]

Hey guys.

 

I'm having some trouble with an idea.

I've tried asking on IRC, but I figure it's something quite easy once you know it- so if anyone can just link a tutorial that'd be enough.

 

Basically, what I need is the ability for a player to enter a value into the GUI of their TE, and this value is then displayed on the GUI.

 

How would I go about doing something like that? I assume the value is saved in NBT, but how do I do that from the GUI? Also, will I need lots of nasty packets to move the value between server and client, or is there something clever that already does that for me?

[Draco18s]

You will almost certainly need packets.

 

I know there are GUI elements that do text-entry, but I haven't used them.

[GotoLink]

I'd guess the anvil could be a good place to look.

[coolAlias]

Climbing the Interface Ladder covers this kind of stuff pretty well, if you can spare the time to watch the whole thing.

[Flenix]

Climbing the Interface Ladder covers this kind of stuff pretty well, if you can spare the time to watch the whole thing.

 

Perfect; been given the day off work today anyway so now I have something to do Cheers