I've searched far and wide to find a way to draw text to the screen and I have found the following so far, that is unfortunately not working correctly:

 

I have a TickEventHandler.java, that is registered through FMLCommonHandler.instance().bus().

My event handler gets called (if I write to the console from there, the console gets flooded), but the text is nowhere to be seen.

 

My question is: how can I draw text to the screen, preferably showing only when in a game (not in menu screens) like the data shown when F3 is pressed?

 

Thanks!

I'm wondering this too, Minecraft.GetMinecraft().fontRenderer is always null for me, and I don't know how to get it

package something;

import net.minecraft.client.gui.Gui;
import net.minecraftforge.client.event.RenderGameOverlayEvent;
import net.minecraftforge.client.event.RenderGameOverlayEvent.ElementType;
import cpw.mods.fml.client.FMLClientHandler;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.eventhandler.EventPriority;
import cpw.mods.fml.common.eventhandler.SubscribeEvent;

public class MyClass extends Gui
{

    @SubscribeEvent(priority = EventPriority.NORMAL)
    public void hej(RenderGameOverlayEvent event)
    {

        if (event.isCancelable() || event.type != ElementType.EXPERIENCE)
        {
            return;
        }
        
        drawString(FMLClientHandler.instance().getClient().fontRenderer, "heeeejjjjj", 40, 40, 0xffffff);
    }
}

 

Mainmod:

 

        MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(new MyClass());

I have a cheaty way of doing this. Not most simple, but works.

 

Registration:

MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.register(new IngameText(Minecraft.getMinecraft()));

 

IngameText class:

//you can add package and imports
public class IngameText extends Gui {
     private Minecraft mc;

     public IngameText(Minecraft mc) {
           super();
           this.mc = mc;
     }

     @SubscribeEvent
     public void renderScreen(RenderGameOverlayEvent.Post event) {
           if (event.isCancelable() || event.type != ElementType.TEXT) {
                return;          
          }
          render(mc);
     }

     public void render(Minecraft minecraft) {
          minecraft.fontRenderer.drawString(//add your fields);
     }
}

 

Like I said, this is like the worst way to do it, but it works