Please Help! How to get a dye item.

I have no idea how to do this after many failed attempts. I want to know how to get a colored dye item. I tried from an id, but it is casting an error on the ':'. Pleas help.
Thanks!
-Cyber

 

Cyber_Pigeon
Have you tried creating an ItemStack with INK_SAC and setting the durability of it to the data value of the color dye?

 

You have to use Material.INK_SAC and then a data value when you construct the ItemStack. As far as I can see there is no "item meta" class that allows for coloring dye without a data value. Unless I'm missing such a class, you'll probably have to update/fix the code in Minecraft 1.8.

 

Hey thanks guys!

 

Garris0n Cyber_Pigeon
Maybe 'zis?

http://jd.bukkit.org/rb/apidocs/org/bukkit/material/Dye.html

 

Right, so create a dye, set the color, and call toItemStack.

Also, TIL hasItemMeta doesn't exactly do what I thought it did.

 

I created this convenience method for exactly this purpose: https://github.com/desht/sensibleto.../desht/sensibletoolbox/util/STBUtil.java#L390

Just call .toItemStack() on the result if you need an ItemStack instead of a MaterialData.