I need to add text to the chest window when the name of the chest is equal to something.

I guess I need an event that fires every tick or so when you are inside a chest, and then render the text somehow above it.

Are there any good examples of the events I need to use in order to achieve something like this?

45 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

GuiScreenEvent.DrawScreenEvent.

 

@EventHandler
    public void renderChest(DrawScreenEvent e) {
    	if (e.getGui() instanceof GuiChest) {
	    	System.out.println("ok");
    	}
    }

Doesn't work for some reason

6 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

That is not how you subscribe to Forge events.

Oh oops, how did that get there

22 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

That is not how you subscribe to Forge events.

Btw. why does text look dark there?

 

2 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

I'm sorry, what?

http://prntscr.com/jjyday

This should be white, 0xFFFFFF or §f. All colors appear darker than they should for some reason.

Just now, diesieben07 said:

You have shown zero of your code.

ScaledResolution sr = new ScaledResolution(mc);
	    	String displayGUIText = "This is a place-holder";
	    	e.getGui().drawString(mc.fontRenderer, displayGUIText, sr.getScaledWidth() / 2 - mc.fontRenderer.getStringWidth(displayGUIText) / 2, sr.getScaledHeight() / 2 - 85, 0xFFFFFF);
	    	

 

just some basic font render stuff, it's all inside the event listener I sent earlier. (DrawScreenEvent.Post)

11 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

You need to set the GL color to white.

I don't think I really know how to do this, do you have an example of this?

GL11.glColor4f(1, 1, 1, 1);

This is what I found but it does nothing.

 

Also, can I get the chest's custom name from this event?

13 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

Use GLStateManager.color. You might also need RenderHelper.disableStandardItemLighting (and RenderHelper.enableStandardItemLighting after you are done).

 

Sure.

Awesome it worked. I am fiddling around trying to figure out how to get the custom chest name. Should it be inside getGui()?

9 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

GuiChest already draws the name, look at it.

I checked GuiChest by itself and what e.getGui() gives, also e.getGui().getClass() , couldn't find it. I'm probably not even close

 

1 minute ago, diesieben07 said:

So, you checked GuiChest, but you did not see what GuiChest#drawGuiContainerForegroundLayer does?

I did, but I couldn't manage to access upperChestInventory

2 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

You do know Java, yes? Then you certainly know about access levels.

You need reflection.

oh right, reflections are no fun