Writing to a tag when item placed in inventory in creative

[SnowyEgret]

I would like to write to an item stack's tag as soon as an item is placed in a player's inventory. In survival, Item.on created is called after the item is crafted, which works fine. How can I do the same in creative?

[Eternaldoom]

I think he means when the item is taken from a creative tab and placed in the hotbar/survival inventory.

[SnowyEgret]

To clarify, yes I mean when an item is moved from a creative tab to the hotbar/survival inventory.

 

I can not see how getSubItems helps me.

 

All I can come up with is overriding onUpdate, flagging the first time through, and ignoring subsequent calls.

[SnowyEgret]

I have an item with an inventory written to it's item stack (like your ItemInventory class). More specifically, a staff with spells. In survival mode, a player crafts the staff, crafts the spells, then assembles the spells on the staff with a gui. In creative mode, I would like a player to be able to select a staff from his creative tab with spells already on it.

 

When the staff is moved to the hotbar, it will write spells to it's item stack.

[SnowyEgret]

They can. Even better if they are. It hadn't occurred to me that an item had a stack in a creative tab.

 

So how do I get a reference to the stack? There is no stack parameter in getSubItems.

[SnowyEgret]

OK, got it. Thanks for your time.