[1.7.10]Posting messages to chat client-side

[Chlod]

I'm trying to post a message to players, when they login, saying they need to update to the latest version. Now, I've done the whole "getting-the-version" thing. I just need to know what code to put to send the message ONLY WHEN the player logs into the game.

 

Thanks in advance

[coolAlias]

PlayerLoggedInEvent, though Ibelieve this event is fired only on the server side; if so and you absolutely must have an event that is fired on the client side (i.e. your mod is a client-side only mod), you can use EntityJoinWorldEvent and check for EntityPlayer before sending the message.

[Chlod]

  On 7/27/2016 at 3:08 AM, coolAlias said:

PlayerLoggedInEvent, though I believe this event is fired only on the server side; if so and you absolutely must have an event that is fired on the client side (i.e. your mod is a client-side only mod), you can use EntityJoinWorldEvent and check for EntityPlayer before sending the message.

So now, what do I do to check if the Entity is a player, and how do I send the message?

 

EDIT: I can't find a tutorial for this exact version and topic on Google, so don't ask me to Google it. Done that already.

[Matryoshika]

Done outside IDE, cannot guarantee if it will work from copy/paste, but the gist of it should be clear.

 

As this is for a client-side only mod, you could instead likely cast it directly to Minecraft#getMinecraft()#thePlayer() or whatever the structure of that is again.

public void getPlayer(EntityJoinWorldEvent event){
        //Check if the entity is what we are looking for.
        if(event.entity instanceof EntityPlayer){
                //If its a player, cast the entity to EntityPlayer.
                EntityPlayer player = (EntityPlayer) event.entity;
                //Now you use "player" instead of "event.entity"
        }
}

[Chlod]

Ok, I did it. Now, how about the chat message now?

[Ernio]

EntityPlayer#addChatComponentMessage to write message from client-side to client-chat.

 

[Chlod]

I did it! Thanks guys!

Here's the results:

@EventHandler
public void getPlayer(EntityJoinWorldEvent event){
	//Credits: Matryoshika, Ernio and coolAlias on the Minecraft Forge Forums
        if(event.entity instanceof EntityPlayer){
                EntityPlayer player = Minecraft.getMinecraft().thePlayer; 
                    player.addChatMessage(new ChatComponentText("text));
        }
}

[Ernio]

This will fire anytime ANY player joins world.

You need:

if (event.entity == Minecraft#thePlayer)

And ONLY that.

[Chlod]

Ok... it doesn't fire at all. With the new changes and the past one.

[coolAlias]

It should be @SubscribeEvent, not @EventHandler. Might help you to check out a tutorial on using Forge Events.