[SOLVED] changing TileEntity Values from GUI?

[endershadow]

In my mod my GUI has buttons, and I want to change a string in my tile entity but it doesn't change the value in the tile entity when I press the button. It also doesn't change the item in slot 1 and slot 2 because of this.

https://github.com/code-lyoko-modding/CodeLyokoMod/blob/master/lyoko/entities/TileEntitySuperCalc.java

https://github.com/code-lyoko-modding/CodeLyokoMod/blob/master/lyoko/client/GuiSuperCalc.java

 

EDIT: I ended up doing something different in the end

[endershadow]

how would I do that?

[endershadow]

I already read and did that.

 

EDIT: I just don't know how to send it to the tile entity

[endershadow]

how do I send the coordinates of the tile entity?

[endershadow]

what I'd put in the tile entity to send the packet of the coordinates. I understand it fine, until it gets to EntityPlayer part

[endershadow]

I'm already sending a packet from the GUI. do i also need to send the coordinates from the GUI?

[endershadow]

sorry I meant do I send it from the GUI instead of the tile entity. now that I told the GUI to send the packet, how do I make it change the data in the tile entity?

[endershadow]

is there a way i could send a reference of the tile entity from the gui to the packet handler?

[endershadow]

but how would I initialize the reference? would I do this?

TileEntitySuperCalc tsc = new TileEntitySuperCalc();
    	 tsc.xCoord = x;
    	 tsc.yCoord = y;
    	 tsc.zCoord = z;
    	 tsc.selectedSector = sector;

[endershadow]

but there's no world variable in the file. how would I do that?

[endershadow]

I used the player variable in onPacketData to get the sender of the packet. it isn't changing the variable of the tile entity. here's the code I have now.

https://github.com/code-lyoko-modding/CodeLyokoMod/blob/master/lyoko/entities/TileEntitySuperCalc.java

https://github.com/code-lyoko-modding/CodeLyokoMod/blob/master/lyoko/PacketHandler.java

https://github.com/code-lyoko-modding/CodeLyokoMod/blob/master/lyoko/client/GuiSuperCalc.java

[endershadow]

it get's updated according to the console, but the gui doesn't display it.

[endershadow]

how would I do that

[endershadow]

so let me make sure I understand you correctly. I need to implement IPacketHandler in the tile entity and in onDataPacket I call world.markBlockForUpdate(x, y, z). and where is getDescriptionPacket?

[endershadow]

this is kind of confusing for me so could you write show me exactly what I need to write and where? because I tend to learn what to do better from seeing it than being told what to do. Seeing an example of this being already implemented would work as well.

[mnn]

example of TE synchronization: https://github.com/mnn/jaffas/blob/59b59f01a1f2f6b21b0dc87e5a15e6761a3f3f19/src/minecraft/monnef/jaffas/food/block/TileEntityPie.java#L117

[endershadow]

I'm still confused about what I do in the methods themselves.

private void sendUpdate() {
            worldObj.markBlockForUpdate(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord);
        }
        
        @Override
        public Packet getDescriptionPacket() {
            Packet132TileEntityData packet = (Packet132TileEntityData) super.getDescriptionPacket();
            NBTTagCompound tag = packet != null ? packet.customParam1 : new NBTTagCompound();

            return new Packet132TileEntityData(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord, 1, tag);
        }

        @Override
        public void onDataPacket(INetworkManager net, Packet132TileEntityData pkt) {
            super.onDataPacket(net, pkt);
        }

what do I do once I add that into my code?

[mnn]

in the posted example I synchronize fields "rotation" and "type". markBlockForUpdate forces server to send update to a client; onDataPacket is fired when client recieves synchronization packet from server, client gets data from unpacked tag from packet and saves it to its TE (=synchronize it); getDescriptionPacket is called on a server-side when TE on client needs to be synchronized, so server here puts data to NBT tag and that packs into a packet.