[1.8]How do I make it so my custom item dings when it is finished charging?

[needoriginalname]

I am making a mod in minecraft 1.8, and one thing it can do is that when you right click  and hold it. It will 'charge' the item and do a different action then it would do if you just simply right clicked.

 

I want the user to know when it is done charging, and I thought that a that little ding caused by a arrow hitting a player would be perfect. However, I can't figure out how to do this. I tried using NBT as a way to store how much time is left for charging and whether or not it has played a sound effect. But that way doesn't work, as it just resets the timer because a different NBT tag makes MC think its a different item.

 

So any idea what I could?

 

Note, the charge time is configurable. So the charge time in the client's configs might be different in the server's config.

 

[needoriginalname]

I looked into using getItemInUseCount. Problem with that is that is that is @SideOnly(Side.CLIENT), which if I remember right. Means that function doesn't exist server side, and the server is where the actual time needed to charge the item is stored.

[needoriginalname]

That works. Got it to work now, thanks.