Archive July 2015
Bash Colors for Minecraft Shell Scripts
If you ever wanted to write scripts in Node.JS (or any JavaScript runtime) for Minecraft, one may be interested in the ability to convert the Minecraft Color Codes into their Bash Color Code versions.
I have wrote a few methods (color map credit to mcrcon) that will help with outputting colored text using Minecraft color codes.
Usage is like
console.log(mccolor(c("3", "red Text) + c("a", "green text")));0Async Development – Task Chain – Java Control Flow for Bukkit
Reposting because Google has bugged out and ended up dropping this from Google :/ So making it look new to get it back on Google.
So as any Bukkit developer knows, the API is not thread safe! And to make matters worse, there is no concrete Java Control Flow API in Bukkit.
However at Empire Minecraft our server very heavily depends on our MySQL Database to provide features. So running database queries on the main thread is common but undesired, and Java control flow is needed.
Running queries async creates complicated java control flow issues, need to run this query… now need to access the bukkit api, so return to Sync processing, oh wait, now I need to act again with another database query!
Easy to avoid all that java control flow trouble by running everything sync – but then performance can be hurt.
Node.JS / JavaScript has this problem in great detail, and turns code into call back hell, so there are plenty of Flow Control libraries out there like Q, Async, Chainsaw and more.
Therefor, to avoid Java running into this same callback mess, I wrote an elegant Java Flow Control system on top of the Bukkit Scheduler.
0About Aikar
I am Senior Software Engineer and Entrepeneur. I am an enthusiast and love creating things. I operate my own side company in my free time called Starlis LLC, working in Minecraft.
I enjoy doing things right and learning modern technologies.