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Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 81

How to listen for a command with multiple arguments?

I've created a chat in java with a GUI and a textField to send Messages. I can also type for commands (like "§example") there.
But In the chat I want to create a "§kick [user]" command. How can I get the argument [user] in the 

public void runCommand() {
    if(textField.getText().equals("§kick")) {
        appendTextMessages("kicked " + user);
        textField.setText(null);
        textField.requestFocus();
    }
}

Hope you understand the question!
Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 71

Answers (2)

drew moore
drew moore

Reputation: 32680

Well, typically I click a button to submit what I've typed into whatever text field to whatever website/web-app I'm submitting to... So, when I click that button, you check the contents of that text field to get what I've inputted and process it in essentially the same way you learned to do so with a Scanner in introductory Java,

Upvotes: 1

Jean Logeart
Jean Logeart

Reputation: 53829

Try:

String text = textField.getText();
if(text.starstWith("§kick ")) {
    String user = text.substring("§kick ".length());
    // kick user
    // ...
}

Upvotes: 0

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