Description for items? 1.7.2

[Totalytaco]

hi i was wondering if anyone here knew how to make an item show a description in grey text when hovered over in inventory or when shifted while hovering over the item if anyone could help i would be Grateful

(Sorry if my english gets a bit terrible not my main language).

[Totalytaco]

oke ty!

[Totalytaco]

 

public void addInformation(ItemStack par1ItemStack, List par2List)

    {

    par2List.add("test");

    }

 

this is what i came up with put i get an error saying Void is an invalid type for the variable addinformation

 

[jabelar]

@TotalyTaco

 

The addInformation() method is defined in the Item class as:

    /**
     * allows items to add custom lines of information to the mouseover description
     */
    @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
    public void addInformation(ItemStack par1ItemStack, EntityPlayer par2EntityPlayer, List par3List, boolean par4) {}

 

So if you're going to override it you need to:

a) also make it only loaded on client side with the @SideOnly annotation

b) use exactly the same parameter list -- otherwise in Java you've defined a different method that won't be called.

 

Note that this method is called automatically by the showToolTip() method in ItemStack class, and is appended to the display name for the item.

[Totalytaco]

Ah! That worked thanks!