Creating A Custom Book

Hello people of the Bukkit community! I was wondering how you can create a book from a .txt file: Taking all the text inside a config and putting it into a book. I know there is a limited amount of characters for each book page, so how would you take the characters from the config and split it?

 

Hmm... I wonder if InfoBook is open source- doesn't look like it, sadly. I think that does just what you're describing, though in a more config-driven way.

If you just want to take any old text file and load it into a book, then I guess you would have to break it up yourself based on character count. Might be nice to get "fancy" and only break at the beginning of a sentence or paragraph, maybe.

Ok, well... I was of no help!

 

NathanWolf
Oh, ok. Thanks anyways!

Any other ideas..?

 

NathanWolf Essentials is open-source, don't they have a feature that does this?
https://github.com/essentials/Essentials/tree/2.x/Essentials/src/com/earth2me/essentials/textreader
The classes in there may be of some help BungeeTheCookie

 

Thanks, but it uses IEssentials and other Essentials components

xTigerRebornx
Ok, so it looks like I can use it. The only thing IEssentials, etc is used for is for throwing exceptions and etc

But, how can we utilize it?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

BungeeTheCookie Look into the algorithm it uses for writing the pages, such as how it distributes it into lines.

 

Is there any simpler method? Because I cannot find the base it uses to write books.

 

BungeeTheCookie Could try turning the whole text file into a char[] or something that can store a massive amount of chars, and loop through that, putting a char down until you hit the line length, then go to the next line, repeat that until the end of the page, and make the next page?

 

Forget where I got this from but this worked for me:

Code:java

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        Scanner sc = new java.util.Scanner("sample.txt");
        while (sc.hasNext()) {
          sb.append(sc.nextLine ());
        }

 

xTigerRebornx
Uhm... I may try that if I really want to.

Onlineids
How is it able to tell when the characters run over the page?

 

Scanners read files if its a text it goes line by line, you make sure theres another line with .hasNextLine()

 

Onlineids
So how would you use this in the creation of a book?

 

This might work with the string builder you get from before
String[] lines = sb.toString().split("\\n");
this will return essentialy exactly how the .text file was formated afaik.

 

I know \n creates a new line, but what does \\n do? Also, does this work for like, Enters?

 

Just a typo its \n

 

Ok. thanks.