Cooldowns

How do I make a cooldown? And if the player tries to do the command it says how long more until you can do the command. I am making a kitpvp plugin with eclipse.

 

david123718

When the player issues the command you want to add a cooldown for, store the command, the current time (System.currentTimeMillis()) and the length of the cooldown:

Code:java

Map<String, CommandCooldown> cooldowns;

CommandCooldown is an arbitrary class name where you can retrieve the time you issued the command (getIssueTime()) and the length of the cooldown (getCooldown()). An example usage for adding a new cooldown to the map:

Code:java

CommandCooldown cooldown = new CommandCooldown();
cooldown.setIssueTime(System.currentTimeMillis());
cooldown.setCooldown(3600000); //1 hour = 3600000 milliseconds.
 
cooldowns.put(commandName, cooldown);

When you want to check to see if the cooldown has passed, you would do something along the lines of this:

Code:java

boolean cooldownPassed = System.currentTimeMillis() - cooldowns.get(commandName).getIssueTime() >= cooldowns.get(commandName).getCooldown();

If you want to retrieve the remaining length of the cooldown, you would do:

Code:java

long remainingTime = cooldowns.get(commandName).getCooldown() - (System.currentTimeMillis() - cooldowns.get(commandName).getIssueTime());

 

But how do I tell the player How long you have left to the cooldown

 

david123718

player#sendMessage(String);

 

Sorry Im confused can you give me a example please?

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somePlayerInstance.sendMessage("something")?

 

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