im working on a right click method and i wanted to know when i right click. so far i cannot find any code for 1.8 that will display  a chat message so how do i display a custom chat message.

If the right click action is performed clicking a block you should override the onBlockActivated method, otherwise i think that you should implement a Tick Handler (wich i don't know how to do unfortunately)

so that means it won't show in the chat?

You need to be more specific - you want to display msg on click on block, on click anywhere, on click with item, if with item - with vanilla or your own?

just on click i just want to know when i click. i want it to tell me.

Well, there is client-side MouseEvent that would allow you to display client messages (server doesn't know about it).

 

Then there is PlayerInteractEvent ran on server and client which would allow to send message from server (server knows about it).

ok but do you know how to send chat msg?

 

im working on a right click method and i wanted to know when i right click. so far i cannot find any code for 1.8 that will display  a chat message so how do i display a custom chat message.

What you need is just the EntityPlayer from the onBlockActivated() method. In there just do player.addChatmessage(new ChatComponentText("Your message here")));

im working on a right click method and i wanted to know when i right click. so far i cannot find any code for 1.8 that will display  a chat message so how do i display a custom chat message.

What you need is just the EntityPlayer from the onBlockActivated() method. In there just do player.addChatmessage(new ChatComponentMessage(new ChatComponentText("Your message here")));

 

player.addChatComponentMessage(new ChatComponentText("MSG"));

Yes i know, wasn't sure about that, looked again and changed it

this is the code i have so far and i put it into my item class that i want to right click but when i right click it wont do anything.

 

 

 

public void onBlockActivated(EntityPlayer player)

{

 

player.addChatComponentMessage(new ChatComponentText("MSG"));

 

 

}

*facepalms*

 

You need to actually override method from Block, not make your own. Learn Java before modding, please :C