Minecraft Forge 1.8.9 to 1.9.4 Issues

[Frontear]

I am trying to update my mod for 1.9.4. I have a class whose method returned ChatComponentText. I am aware this no longer exists, and haven't been able to find any working alternatives. Here is the return statement: 

new ChatComponentText(EnumChatFormatting.RED + "[" + EnumChatFormatting.AQUA + "MyText" + EnumChatFormatting.GRAY + "] " + EnumChatFormatting.RED)).getChatComponentText_TextValue()

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed?

Edited February 21, 2018 by Frontear

[Frontear]

I found the solution. Use 

new TextComponentString("YourTextGoesHere");

I cannot find out how to format in colours however.

 

[Frontear]

Thank you for your assistance!

I have another question. Currently, I am trying to reference 'EntityPlayer' and 'EntityPlayerSP'. This is the code for 1.8.9:

protected final net.minecraft.client.entity.EntityPlayerSP player;
if (player.isUsingItem()) {
  // do something
}

// elsewhere in code
if (player.movementInput.jump) {
  player.sendQueue.addToSendQueue(new CPacketEntityAction(...));
}

This approach, however, doesn't seem to contain the either sendQueue or isUsingItem. I tried checking around for any other ItemStack objects (for isUsingItem), and found itemStackMainHand, however this doesn't sound like what I would want. Would you know what fields they are now?

Edited February 21, 2018 by Frontear
new question

[Frontear]

I just found out for 'EntityPlayerSP.sendQueue' is now 'EntityPlayerSP.connection', and that 'addToSendQueue' is now 'sendPacket'.

I don't understand where the isUsingItem() boolean method has gone off though. I would greatly appreciate any help

[Frontear]

Thank you for your assistance thus far. You have been extremely helpful!