Basic menu

Basic menus

This page will guide you through creating a basic menu. We will be using the spigot module for this, however same methods apply in the adventure module.

Creating the menu

We need to first create are menu:

Menu menu = new Menu(2, "&0My menu");

The first parameter is the amount of rows in the menu. (Aka it calculates the amount of slots needed for the inventory by doing rows * 9.)

You can also extend the menu class (this tutorial wont do this but it is always an option):

public class MyMenu extends Menu {

    public MyMenu() {
        super(2, "&0My menu");
        // Do stuff to build inventory such as adding items
    }
}

Adding items

We can first add items. There are two methods:

menu.addItem(item); // Will add the item to the next available slot
menu.setItem(item, 4); // Will put the item in the given slot

Adding buttons

The biggest reason to use a gui or menu library is so you can easily create things such as clickable items (buttons) without having to have a separate class for listening.