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Plugin Name: SignLink

Bukkit: 1.7.2 R0.1/R0.2

Version: 1.34

Description

This plugin acts as a bridge between plugins and signs to easily display text on signs. Instead of entering commands, clicking the sign, or any other routine plugins could use, players can enter 'variables', key values starting (and ending) with %, to show information at that spot.

It also includes features no other plugin is needed for, such as custom text and ticker values you can set in values.yml. Signs are stored on file, they survive reloads and server restarts.

A video says 1000 times more words than a picture. :)

A lot more information on the WIKI page

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Configuration

The linkedsigns.txt contains information of where signs are located. The values.yml sets the (standard) usable keys.

# In here you can set default values for this plugin.
# The ticker property can be LEFT, RIGHT or NONE and sets the direction message is 'ticked'.
# tickerInterval sets the amount of ticks (1/20 of a second) are between the ticker update.
# The value is the thing to display or tick.
# To use colors in your text, use the § sign followed up by a value from 0 - F.
# Example: §cRed to display a red colored 'Red' message.
# You can find all color codes on the internet (they may use & there, ignore that!)
sign:
    ticker: NONE
    value: This is a regular message you can set and is updated only once.
test:
    tickerInterval: 3
    ticker: LEFT
    value: 'This is a test message being ticked from right to left. '

Permissions and commands

Use /togglesignupdate to turn sign updating on or off, just in case someone made a huge amount of updating signs that causes lag. Two permission nodes (Bukkit permissions):

    signlink.addsign:
        description: Allows you to build signs containing variables
        default: op
    signlink.toggleupdate:
        description: Allows you to set if signs are being updated or not
        default: op

Plugins that use SignLink

TrainCarts (arrival signs)

WebAuctionPlus

Links

View the source code at GitHub

Changelog

Metrics

This plugin sends server count statistics to MCStats.org. You can (globally) opt out in the PluginMetrics/config.yml file.

Development Builds

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_ForgeUser8332448
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Posted Jun 2, 2013
@exfabianex

You need to tell SignLink what the variable is, Type

/variable edit test | Then | /variable set This is a test | Then | /variable setticker right 6

Anything bold you can replace with anything (Apart from right which can be either left or right (From what I know of)).

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Posted Jun 1, 2013
Hi! Why do not the sign link plugin works? When i place a sign and write %test% nothing happens and i have the BkCommonLib installed, please help! Sorry for bad english :(

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Posted Jun 1, 2013
@harryjamesuk Latest dev-build or the official one that is now pending approval again should resolve your problems. Since isLoaded was already rewritten and VirtualSign 'location' too, this in total should completely get rid of that error and others.

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Posted Jun 1, 2013
@bergerkiller

Thanks, Appreciate it :)

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Posted Jun 1, 2013
@harryjamesuk I am looking into this now and will probably re-upload the current version as it has several problems apparently. Beta-testing is never bullet-proof...

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Posted May 31, 2013
Today I experienced this issue with SignLink which caused this error to loop in my console so much and so fast that it actually stopped the ports working on my Server (Or similar) which meant I was unable to access my Spacebukkit Panel. I had to go into SSH to try to stop the Server which from there was also not possible so in the end I had to force "kill" the screen.

I hope you can look into what caused this so that it doesn't happen again. Here is my error log: http://pastebin.com/GJ4AQavt

I'm not sure if it's something to do with the players logging in on the same second or similar but it just suddenly happened.

Need any more info, just let me know :)

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Posted May 24, 2013
Thanks for the awesome plugin! ♥

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Posted May 24, 2013
@cuddyier @laurensvh I am now working on some fixes for this and other things. Latest development builds fix some of these issues, of which the NPE occurring when a Sign ends up 'glitched' (way to go Bukkit)

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Posted May 21, 2013
Hello,

I got a big error on my server with this plugin. It is spamming this error: 17:48:16 [SEVERE] [SignLink] An error occured while updating the signs: 17:48:16 [SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException

I am using Signlink v1.32 and BCCommonLib v1.52 I am also using Traincarts v1.72.7

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Posted May 18, 2013
Why am I getting this error? http://pastebin.com/N0f3JPfd I'm on latest version of SignLink and latest BKCommonLib Also, on startup it says: http://pastebin.com/cBTshRdP

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Posted May 13, 2013
I checked, and seems like the values.yml changed into "UTF-8 non-BOM" format, when I changed the values in game. Maybe that is why it works correctly now - earlier on, I saved the values.yml in plain "UTF-8" format.

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Posted May 11, 2013
I also edited the value with /variable edit, and everything seems to work just fine. Weird. Well, maybe I'll resort to editing the variables in game instead of directly editing them in the file.

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Posted Apr 29, 2013
@Etsija Yeah I can't fix that problem, since the client 'predicts' that a sign is gone before the server knows it. Essentially, SignLink still thinks the sign is there and sends an update packet, but the client already removed the block.

There's a fairly big chance that this is a configuration loading problem, where the letters end up scrambled like you see when loading from file. Has to do with charsets and all. I suppose performing the /var set command results in the text gone when restarting the server?

EDIT

Stangely, it works fine when I tried it. I simply used /variable set äëïöü and it set everything right, and on restart it was still fine. I suspect this is an issue with reading, not UTF-8, but UTF-16 or Unicode text. I suspect it reads that as UTF-8, resulting in ä turning into two characters instead.

Can you perhaps upload the values.yml you produced? I'll inspect it using a byte/hexcode editor.

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Posted Apr 29, 2013
One more thing: I changed values.yml into UTF-8 to incorporate the use of Scandinavian letters to the messages. I'm writing the word "Tässä" ("here") to the sign, but it shows out like this:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6411310/sign.jpg

Any idea? Signs where I use Scandinavian letters do show OK in Vanilla Minecraft.

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Posted Apr 29, 2013
@bergerkiller: congratulations, your latest fixes fixed the signs for me; they are now ticking properly from sign to sign. Unfortunately, I still get "unable to locate sign at x,y,z" whenever I delete a SignLink sign.

Naturally, newest versions of BKCommonLib (build #144) and SignLink (build #13) in use.

No Java errors at the console.

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Posted Apr 28, 2013
@BillyGalbreath The space-filling bug, and others, will be fixed in a new official build shortly. Blinking...hmn I want to add it as a new ticker mode, but then I need to know two values to switch in between. For now I'll add a 'blink' as in - blink between full-text and full-spaces.

EDIT

New build can be found. I implemented a basic BLINK ticker mode. set it using /var setticker blink 20 to blink every second. I also fixed various other issues, of which text updating, sign not found warnings and space filling bugs. I also implemented text wrapping: left or right tickers now wrap text around. This means that you can now tick short text properly.

I'm going to test around a bit more tomorrow, then I'll see if an official build can be published.

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Posted Apr 28, 2013
Idea: Maybe add a blinking feature with configurable blink rate/delay. That would compliment the tickers, imo. ;)

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Posted Apr 26, 2013
%date% and %time% seem to fill the remaining characters with blank spaces. Using build #11 with BK build #134 on CB build #2754

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Posted Apr 26, 2013
@Etsija I'll assume that you used the SignLink build found on the CI Jenkins server, and I'll do some tests myself to see what could be wrong. Just in case: see if installing ProtocolLib solves some of your issues, it could be a conflict with the packet listener.

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Posted Apr 24, 2013
Nope, still nothing seems to work:

I set up the empty signs, followed by the "leading sign" which has

%date% %time% %test %sign

This is the result: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6411310/the_signs.png

the time is not "alive"; it merely shows the time when the sign is created, but "the clock does not tick"
also no texts extend to the other signs, and no text is moving

Am I missing something REALLY obvious here? In the video you are "painting" the signs somehow, at least something like that comes to the chat. So: do I need to do something special to link those empty signs to the leading one?

I did another test: set up a sign all by itself, having the same variables. Same issue, nothing moves.

More tests: after server restarts, the signs always show a different text. After one restart, also the other signs (which are totally empty in my picture above) showed some of the texts, but still nothing moving. After two restarts, the texts had once again changed and the last line of the first sign had been changed back into "%sign".

This is _really_ confusing behaviour. Do you have ANY idea what might be causing it?
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Project ID

31765
Created

Sep 3, 2011
Last Released File

Jan 2, 2014
Total Downloads

44,764
License

GNU General Public License ver...

Bukkit

SignLink

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SignLink

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We will no longer continue development of our plugins

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Description

A lot more information on the WIKI page

Commands

Configuration

Permissions and commands

Plugins that use SignLink

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Changelog

Metrics

Development Builds

Comments

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