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Datapack Menu, No More Using The Vanilla Datapack List.

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Max Flower's Avatar Max Flower
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One thing that has annoyed me is that using /datapack list came up with a ugly menu and didn't really tell you much, so I came up with this datapack, it shows your installed datapacks in a much easier to read format while also crediting the datapack creator, as seen in the image above

How To Use:

As a consumer:
It's very simple, just do /trigger Datapack_Menu as seen in the image.
As a creator:
It's a bit complicated but I think I made it as simple as possible, if you're here you
probably know about directories so I won't bother explaining that to you.

Here's the folder structure you will need:

- Your Datapack
  - data
    - your_namespace
      - functions
        - menuitem.mcfunction
    - minecraft
      - tags
        - functions
          - menuinfo.json

menuinfo.json HAS to have
{"replace":false,"values":[";dpmenu:menuitem";]}
in it.
While menuitem.mcfunction can really have anything in it I do think consistency would be good, so use
tellraw @s ["",{"text":"[your datapack]","color":"gold","clickEvent":{"action":"open_url","value":"your download page/"},"hoverEvent":{"action":"show_text","contents":[{"text":"Version: 1.0","color":"blue"}]}},{"text":" [your name]","color":"light_purple","clickEvent":{"action":"open_url","value":"your site"}},{"text": " [UNINSTALL]","color": "dark_purple","clickEvent": {"action": "run_command","value": "uninstall function"}}]
and customize it however you want.


One more thing i should mention is how menuitem.mcfunction can be named anything, just make sure menuinfo.json has the correct function inside of it.Add collapsed content here





This datapack really only is useful if a lot of people use it, so I will ask you all to share this datapack wherever you can. I will be making all my datapacks compatible with this from now on and I suggest you do as well.
CompatibilityMinecraft 1.13
toMinecraft 1.19
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Kefaku
• 12/27/2022 2:44 am
• Level 42 : Master Nerd
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execute as @a[scores={Datapack_Menu=1}] if score @s Datapack_Menu matches 1 run function dpmenu:showmenu
You check for the same score twice (in the selector and with if score; dpmenu:tick), that is unnecessary

Anyways, great idea! :D

Edit: I noticed the same issue has already been mentioned in another comment.
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Frogster
• 09/17/2022 10:43 am
• Level 34 : Artisan Waffle
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Great idea! But I must say that I feel as though if people don’t know that this pack exists, then it’ll go unused and datapack developers would waste time in adding support for this.

I would also add a requirement where the datapacks should use periods to line up with their “Author” and “Uninstall” buttons. A clean, aligned GUI would be very good in getting more people to your pack. That is also why when you create a settings menu, you should generally put the options to the left of the label to ensure that the labels align. Just a piece of advice.
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Lordphenex
• 09/17/2022 4:33 am
• Level 40 : Master Miner
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That's a good idea to enhance compatibility across datapacks. But I think you should have a difference between a normal player and an admin player, maybe via a different message for both. The admin player would have the uninstall button but the normal player should not have it.
In your tick function you wrote
execute as @a[scores={Datapack_Menu=1}] if score @s Datapack_Menu matches 1 run function dpmenu:showmenubut the selector and the if score argument do exactly the same thing.
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