Configure with Canary.inf
This source code alone isn’t enough; you also need a configuration file so that Minecraft can find and launch your plugin. The configuration file is named Canary.inf and looks like this:
| HelloWorld/Canary.inf | |
| | main-class = helloworld.HelloWorld |
| | name = HelloWorld |
| | author = AndyHunt, Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins |
| | version = 1.0 |
Here’s a description of what this file needs. Don’t worry much about the details yet—it will make more sense as we get further into the book.
- main-class
-
Name of the package and class that Java will run to start this plugin (package.classname).
- name
-
Name of the plugin—in this case, HelloWorld.
- author
-
Name of the author (that’s you).
- version
-
Version number of your plugin. Start low, ...
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