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SimpleAnnounce

Create timed announcements/news messages with ease with SimpleAnnounce

You can create messages that are printed server-wide after a certain delay, and have it repeat every x seconds if you'd like. If you wish to send it only to users with certain permissions, or a lack of certain permissions, so it sends to exactly those whom you wish the message to send to.

Features

Timed server-wide announcements/news messages
Easily configurable
Configure one-time or repeating messages
Configure messages to only send to users with or without certain permission nodes
Config auto-generation on first-run
Optional debug mode to track down who is/isn't receiving messages and why
Optional automatic config reloading to retrieve new messages
'/simpleannounce reload' to reload on command!
- Permissions:
  - simpleannounce to use '/simpleannounce' for help
  - simpleannounce.reload to use '/simpleannounce reload' or '/simpleannounce r'

Configuration Overview

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Config Nodes

auto-reloadconfig(int): <Time in minutes to check/reload config for message updates(0 for off)>
    NOTE: When config is reloaded, will reset delays for messages and cause one-time messages to resend
debug-mode(boolean): <Should we pring debug to server.log(true/false)?>
    NOTE: Look for fine and finer level log messages in server.log
messages: Add messages below this, see below

Messages config overview

<message label>(String, req.):
    message: <Message to send>(String, req.)
    delay: <Delay to send message on in secs>(int, optnl - default 0)
    repeat: <time between repeat sends in secs>(int, optnl)
    includesperms: (String list, optnl)
    - <only send to those with this perm>
    - <and this one>
    excludesperms: (String list, optional)
    - <don't send to those with this perm>
    - <and this one>

Default/Example config

auto-reloadconfig: 20
debug-mode: false
messages:
    default1:
        message: Repeating message!
        delay: 15
        repeat: 60
    default2:
        message: Repeating message for those w/ build perm
        delay: 30
        repeat: 60
        includesperms:
        - permissions.build
    default3:
        message: One-time message!
        delay: 45

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Posted Feb 17, 2012
@itsmei123

Color works fine just don't use the & use the native minecraft symbol

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Posted Feb 8, 2012
I am using Linux and the colour system is not working. Please fix this I feel it is one of the most important parts!

Thanks

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Posted Jan 27, 2012
@RowdyKingDippy

'/simpleannounce reload' exists to reload

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Posted Jan 23, 2012
Something like /sa reload would be nice!

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#28 Posted Jan 16, 2012

@taylorjb

I'm using your example:

Colors technically work if you use the correct characters in the config.

Example:

message: §0This is an automatically §9generated repeating message!

And get this:

14:17:22 [SEVERE] Config file plugins/SimpleAnnounce/config.yml isn't valid! unacceptable character '?' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
in "<string>", position 1122

Plugin version 0.5.2 and craftbukkit 1772

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Posted Jan 15, 2012
The only thing this plugin is missing is coloured text

Please add colours such as &a,&7,&e such and such

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Posted Jan 12, 2012
Color would be greatly appreciated. Should of been in the initial release :)

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Posted Jan 5, 2012
I see you are already considering it, but please add the ability to use colors. Can't use § in Ubunutu.

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Posted Jan 4, 2012
Did someone figure out if the §(color)-code works on OpenJDK or if it's a problem of Linux?

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Posted Jan 1, 2012
@Folas1337

Does work on linux...running it on my server, with the Ubuntu 11.10 OS

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Posted Dec 29, 2011
option for random announcements. So that people can see many different messages at set times and not the same.

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Posted Dec 27, 2011
§e Does not work on Linux. I'm not sure if it's caused by the OpenJDK or that linux doesn't like it, but you could really implement the &x-Code. I'm gonna open a ticket because of that if you don't mind :D

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Posted Dec 26, 2011
@taylorjb

The only reason why I said it was hard to find was because I am on a Mac :P , it's probably easier to find on a Window's OS. Edit: When i add the "§0" it doesn't show colors :(

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
@Lars1011

Created a ticket for it, if you care to follow. http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/simpleannounce/tickets/1-intuitive-color-codes-in-messages/

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
@taylorjb

alright, thanks for telling :) , didn't know.

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
@Lars1011

Well I don't do anything with it, that's just the character to make colors in chat for Minecraft. There's nothing in my code to parse it. If you do a print out of ChatColor.BLUE or ChatColor.BLACK etc that is what you get. If C+P is too inconvenient for most I'll add some more intuitive codes to parse in later but not my top priority.

Thanks for the suggestion =)

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
@taylorjb

It took me a while to figure out how to get the "§" key, but i got it :), it would be much easier to make it "&", just a suggestion though.

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
@Folas1337

That would be a silly thing to suggest, then you'd have to change the delay every time you started the server to make it run at the right time.

Anyway that's a good idea, it's just a tiny bit more complicated since there is no scheduler to execute at a certain time, but it's easy enough to work around.

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
You should also include something like
message: Repeat this every day at 00:30
time: 00:30
I think some other plugins have this and it would be really helpful for scheduled serverdowns and announcing them etc. Just a suggestion :P Don't tell me I should use a 23 hours 45 minutes delay after restarting the server to do that. I would be a little bit complicated

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
@MindEngineer

In short, yes.

Bukkit permissions api does not support groups in terms of checking if a user is in a group, rather assigns users permissions based on what the "group" is in the config. Certain plugins support groups more deeply but I don't want to require certain other plugins to be present for this to be used, so instead you can add a list of includes and excludes to make it "group specific". This also allows some alternative ways depending on what you feel is simpler. Another way to do it would be to invent permission nodes for groups like 'group.user', 'group.mod', etc, and have includesperms have that permission. Also, you could make permissions for a message like 'message.donate' and put that in all groups you wish to receive the message and includes perms would again have that permission.

You can do as many permissions as you want, for example:

includesperms: - permission.build - towny.user - iconomy.user - etc etc

and it would only send to people that satisfy all of those.
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SimpleAnnounce

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