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@wiedzmin137

Yeah, I know all about the various plugins and libs that have been recently developed for this. The plugin you link to doesn't provide any kind of documented API that I can see - any holographic / floating text support that I add will be done through code, and not using any direct NMS access, or reflection. That means either ProtocolLib or a plugin with a stable, well-defined and well-documented API.

@wiedzmin137

Display a holographic view is pretty easy, but interacting with one would be quite a lot harder. Still, it would look pretty cool :) If I do ever implement something like this, it will require ProtocolLib since I have no intention of adding a direct NMS dependency to SMS.

@wiedzmin137

Well, there is support for Submenus - is that what you're looking for?

Regarding colours in lore text, yes - just put "&X" in where X is the colour code (see http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Formatting_codes). E.g.

/sms add mymenu "New Item" -command "\\hello!" -lore "&4Red lore text"

and with the API:

SMSMenu menu = SMSMenu.getMenu("mymenu");
SMSMenuItem newItem = new SMSMenuItem(menu, "New Item", "\\\\hello!", "", "wool:red", new String[] { ChatColor.RED + "Red lore text" });
menu.addItem(newItem);

@wiedzmin137

OK, I see what you're trying to achieve. It's a good idea, I agree - I'm just still a little concerned over the way this is very specific to one type of view (inventory view). Right-click on other views (maps/signs) scrolls the view by default.

What I could possibly do is add a new "alt command" to each menu item. That would be triggered by a right-click in the inventory view, and perhaps a shift-click on sign & map views (and Active Items).

It would have to be up to the user though to make it clear that an alt command exists, via the lore. An example (with made-up commands):

/sms add mymenu "Adjust Level" "/level up" -altcommand "/level down" -lore "Left-click: level up\\Right-click: level down"

That would work great for an inventory view icon, but would of course be misleading for a sign view.

Also, you're welcome to use my code, just keep it open source please :)

@zpremio

@Ludovic67114

Yep, the right command syntax would be:

/sms add jobs Woodcutter "/jobs join Woodcutter"

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, been a little busy over the last few days...

@wiedzmin137

My concern here is that separate left-click/right-click only applies to inventory views, not any other kind of view type. It's special menu behaviour for one specific view type, which feels wrong. What specific applications are you thinking of where it would be useful to do this? (Note: I'm not saying no, I just want to have a better understanding of your plans... feel free to take this to private conversation if you prefer).

As for API hooking, a NoClassDefFoundError will get thrown if the SMS plugin is not present or (I believe) not enabled. I'd need to see your full code there to see what's happening but this should basically work:

private void setupSMS(PluginManager pm) {
  Plugin p = pm.getPlugin("ScrollingMenuSign");
  if (p instanceof ScrollingMenuSign && p.isEnabled()) {
    ScrollingMenuSign sms = (ScrollingMenuSign) p;
    // you're good to use its methods now
  } else {
    // plugin not available
}

Be sure of course to have depend: ScrollingMenuSign or softdepend: ScrollingMenuSign in your plugin.yml!

@Ludovic67114

I'm not completely sure what you mean here. What command do you want to run? And how do you want to trigger it - when someone clicks a sign?

@wiedzmin137

OK, views are actually persistent objects (and SMS will auto-save them so they persist across server restarts too). What this mean is that you don't want to be adding a new view every time - create the view once (e.g. on plugin startup) and then just show it when the command is run (view.showGUI(player)).

You can give the view a name too, so you know what to check for. E.g.:

// run on plugin startup
if (!viewManager.checkForView("your-view-name")) {
  view = viewManager.addInventoryViewToMenu("your-view-name", yourMenu, Bukkit.getConsoleSender());
}

Pick any name you want for your view name. You probably want to create your view at the same time your create your menu. And note you can use view.showGUI(player) to pop the view up (toggleGUI() toggles it up and down).

I'm afraid there's no way to distinguish between left & right-clicking an icon (that could be added but it wouldn't work for any other view type so would be quite inconsistent).