Ability to name the chest

[luckydonald]

Havin all that cool sync chests get confusing.
My idea is to name the main chest and all the child chest get the same name.
So you can call one "Work Tools", one "Hunting Equipment", etc.

This bukket forum post might help...

[luckydonald]

The name could be changed later by command

/sc name NEW NAME
[SyncChest] please left click your chest

*clicks chest*

[SyncChest] updated name to "NEW NAME"

like SignEdit does it. See bukkit-plugins/signedit or Github/Tim-R/SignEdit

[luckydonald]

When opening any sync Chest, the MainChest is displayed anyway, so that should'n be as difficult as i initially thought.

[AlexMl]

This all is not very difficult and of course useful. But:
I don't know how good you know the Bukkit plugin world but there are currently no API methods for changing chest titles after placing it. That basicaly means without a big compatible layer I can only support one server version at a time, which is against my rules.

[luckydonald]

My knowledge is almost none. heh.
Would recreating (delete+new) the chest (& copying the inventory) be a possible way?
As there - if I'm correct - are no id's stored but only the coordinates, that replacing would't even require updating anything in the Storage.

But a name on creation

/sc main "NEW NAME"

would be great too.

[AlexMl]

If there was a way like that I would do it. Unfortunately there isn't.

[luckydonald]

 Inventory inv = Bukkit.createInventory(p, 27, ChatColor.RED + "Your Chest Name Goes Here");

is not possible? Or what part isn't possible?

[AlexMl]

The problem is, that the Inventory is created by the chest itself.
I can set the title by changing the name of the item in the hand of the player. That's how I do it in the first place.

To change it after it is placed you need to use reflection and net.minecraft.server code, which changes every version and only allows the support of the version used to compile the plugin. To overcome this obstacle the Bukkit API is used. Unfortunately it does not have a method to change the chest inventory title.

Version compatibility >> current features

The solution is, to add a method to the API layer which I will try. But first my application needs to get approved.