Trying to add a tooltip to an item, seen a couple topics about but nothing is really helping. I've got:

public ModItem(){...} //Standard setup

public void ItemTooltipEvent(ItemStack itemStack, EntityPlayer entityPlayer, List<String> toolTip, ITooltipFlag flags) {
		toolTip.add("This Is A ToolTip");
	} //Not sure what I'm missing

Like I'm asking, I know I'm missing something but not sure what. Any pointers are great and much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

You've got everything wrong.

 

1) You haven't registered an event handler

2) Your event handler method has the wrong signature

3) The method signature you do seem to have is the one from the Item class.

57 minutes ago, Blu_Nighttime said:

Trying to add a tooltip to an item, seen a couple topics about but nothing is really helping. I've got:

Are they your own Items override addInformation in your Item or Block class. If they are not subscribe to the ItemToolTipEvent, you can read more about events on the forge docs.

9 hours ago, Animefan8888 said:

Are they your own Items override addInformation in your Item or Block class. If they are not subscribe to the ItemToolTipEvent, you can read more about events on the forge docs.

This is exactly what I was looking for. I found the addInformation event in another forum page but it looked a little like this

@Override
public void addInformation(ItemStack stack, EntityPlayer entityPlayer, List list, boolean par4){...}

I'm not sure if this is an old version but this no longer works. Now I know it's addInformation, I just looked up Item#addInformation and it's completely different now

@Override
public void addInformation(ItemStack stack, World worldIn, List<String> tooltip, ITooltipFlag flagIn){...}

 

9 hours ago, Draco18s said:

You've got everything wrong.

 

1) You haven't registered an event handler

2) Your event handler method has the wrong signature

3) The method signature you do seem to have is the one from the Item class.

I'm assuming this is the way to add tooltips to already existing items, like vanilla items. Thanks for letting me know the differences and how to perform that way.

 

P.S. Is changing colour of the text a flag or is it a little more complicated?

 

Thanks.