Testing new versions of your plugin
A player may not notice this message when the message is white in color. We can change the color of our message using ChatColor Enum
. This Enum
has each color code that is supported in-game so that we can easily add them to messages. Let's modify the plugin and install the newly modified version on the server. Choose your favorite color and place it before the message in your broadcastToServer
method, as shown in the following code:
Bukkit.broadcastMessage(ChatColor.BLUE + msg);
Before you build your new jar file, change the version in plugin.yml
to 0.2
to indicate that this is an updated version. Build your new jar file using either the build icon or F11. Copy the new version to your plugins folder if you did not set up build.xml
to do so automatically. Issue the reload command again to view the results, as shown in the following screenshot:
The plugin has been reloaded and the message is now in color, as shown in the screenshot. Also note how the version...