Bukkit

@McKenzie87

The latest version should work for Bukkit/Spigot 1.7.9 or higher, so yes it is compatible. If you already added a region to AreaShop with the command '/as add', then you cannot use the [rent] sign again, because the region is already added (it should say that in chat if you try it). If you want to add a sign to an existing AreaShop region then you can use '[as]' on the first line and the region name on the second line.

If making a sign does not trigger any message at all from AreaShop, then I suggest you check the config.yml file. In the 'signTags' section is defined which word you should write on the first line of a sign to trigger AreaShop, make sure that you use that ingame (by default [rent] should be correct).

If the help menu is showing correctly then the plugin should work fine, but it might be wise to still check your log file to see if there are any errors about AreaShop.

@Androkai

Thanks for the pull request, I accepted and merged it. I probably looked over those lines more than 10 times, luckily you found the problem :) Apparently Eclipse simply assumes a certain Java version sometimes, because I have made a bunch of successful builds already to test the support for all WorldGuard/WorldEdit versions.

I will update the README on GitHub with instructions for others later, maybe I have some time for that this weekend.

@Androkai

Make sure you have Java jdk 7 installed. Assuming you are using Eclipse as IDE, you can do rightclick on the "areashop-parent" module, then click Maven > Update Project. Now it shows a small progress thing at the bottom right, wait until that is done. Then use rightclick on that module again, and click Run as > Maven Install. That should work correctly.

I also had and have the "javacTask: source release 1.7 requires target release 1.7" sometimes, but the update thing I described above fixed that for me.

I already tried all of the suggestions in the link about downloading files (found that link myself a couple hours ago), but none of them seem to do the job correctly. The problem is that I want to download a file, and then immediately use it as dependency. But if the file is not downloaded yet, then it will fail the build before even starting. And since all of those suggestions use a task in the build process itself, none of those ever get executed. I'll try to look around a bit more for a solution for that, hopefully I can find something for that.

At least thanks for trying to compile it, while there is not documentation for it yet.

@Androkai

I still need to update the compiling instructions in the README on GitHub, this is definitely something I should mention in there.

All dependencies can be automatically downloaded by Maven, except Vault. Vault does not have a repository, so instead you need to download Vault V1.4.1 manually. Place that jar file in the "/Dependencies" folder with the name "Vault.jar" (Dependencies folder is at the same level as AreaShop, WorldGuard 5, etc). Still after that it will warn you that using a dependency like this is not recommended, but at that point you can ignore it and it should build correctly.

I'm still searching for a way to let Maven automatically download this file, but I did not find a working solution for this yet.

Let me know if you got it working.

General message:

I have changed the project setup of AreaShop to a Maven project. This allows other people to build AreaShop themself easier, and also got AreaShop back to 1 jar file for all WorldEdit and WorldGuard versions again. The current version on GitHub already dynamically loads classes to support WorldGuard 5/6 and WorldEdit 5/6 depending on which version you have installed on your server. This way you can always take advantage of the highest available version, and downloading AreaShop is simplified because you do not have to worry about which version you have to use anymore.

This is a major step towards the next release of AreaShop, but it will still take some time because I'm very busy with my study at the university. Things left to do:

• Change inactive timer to own system instead of using the Bukkit methods to avoid instability and problems (some servers save inventories them self and might get rid of player.dat files)
• Add a way to show very large numbers on signs (will be using Metric prefix letters)
• Finish system to let users setup their own AreaShop regions (adding them is done, managing price and duration by user is also done, removing regions and managing signs is still to be done).

You can always follow the commit log on GitHub to see the progress.

@LuckOfEvil

I have an adding an API on my TODO list, however I don't know when I will actually be able to add it. You can however already hook into AreaShop and get all data about the registered regions and such (no guarantees that all methods stay the same version-to-version though, but mostly pretty stable). The only thing that is missing are (cancellable) events, which you could solve for your own server by adding commands to the 'eventCommandProfiles' section in the config file.

Are you interested in developing a plugin that extends AreaShop in some way and do you want to release it to the public? Or do you want to make something for your own server to change AreaShop in a way you need for your own server? If it is the latter then you can simply clone AreaShop from GitHub, change whatever you want, and then compile it and use it on your server.

If you have any specific questions about how to do things with AreaShop just send me a message.

I'm currently reworking the plugin to a Maven project, so that I can support WorldGuard 5.9 and 6 and also WorldEdit 5 and 6 with just 1 jar file. I'm almost done with setting this up, so I will commit these changes to Github soon. This was one of the things on my list that I wanted to get done for sure before releasing a next update.

@Evergamer2014

V1.2.1 has the issue that all regions that are in another world as 'world', 'world_nether', or 'world_the_end' will be removed from AreaShop after a restart. So I assume you have your regions in a world loaded by for example Multiverse. The problem is that AreaShop loads before Multiverse does, and therefore the world the regions are in are not loaded, and therefore AreaShop deletes the regions.

All versions after that have a fix for this problem, but since you are using 1.7.2 you cannot use those. You can download a fixed version with the link below, this one is not on BukkitDev since I made this one after newer versions were already out.

AreaShop V1.2.2 (Multiverse fix)

If this does not solve your problem then we will have to look further.

@surechoice

In the config.yml file you can change the lines in the 'signTags' section to what you want. Use '/as reload' after you changed it to reload the config.