How can I add a Ender Dragon in Minecraft modding? - eclipse

I have been looking around the Internet, and no one seems to know (or care) about my question :P. I would like to know how to add a Ender Dragon mob into Minecraft. I am using Eclipse, and Youth Digital software. If you don't know what that is, just give me something to copy and paste. I'm pretty noob-ish at coding at stuff, so any help will be appreciated. Thanks!


In my opinion, you need to watch a few more tutorials and understand more of the basics such as item creation. You should also have a look to see the basic principles of Java. Stack Overflow is a great place to get advice on specific problems but I am afraid that they do not like broader problems such as the one you present here.
From your question I assume you are asking how to "spawn" in the Ender Dragon rather than "add it". For this you will need to place this snippet in a method linked to an event handler:
EntityDragon dragon = new EntityDragon(worldIn);
worldIn.spawnEntity(dragon);
where worldIn is the world argument from the method.
However, I suggest that you watch more tutorials on YT to get the basics, then have a look at other peoples' mod code on Github.
(Quark is a great example of some simple modding mechanics, so I suggest you trawl its source code -> https://github.com/Vazkii/Quark/tree/master/src/main/java/vazkii/quark)

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I am looking for a program to make mockup screenshots with. I first found out I could do it with Visual Basic (uglier names I have yet to hear a programming language being called) from joelonsoftware.com. I don't want to start learning VB now, especially since I am still in the process of learning Java. I then found mockupscreens.com, with the searchstring "how to make mockup screenshots". But seeing as I am going to use this program quite infrequently, I don't think paying $80 for it is worth it.
The mockups I'd like to do would be mainly for Windows XP (perhaps also for GNOME, KDE and Mac OSX, but these are not top-priority).
Edit: Balsamiq is suggested, but this is also a non-free program.

Balsamiq

Visio works well, if you have it.
Personally, I like paper and a pen. Then I can't get bogged down in the LOOK of it, and go more for the usability and function. Same with websites.
Once you have the form infront of a customer, you have zero room to move - it you dont deliver it pixel-perfect, they get..... angry. :)

You don't have to learn the language to use the visual forms designer from Visual Studio to create mockups. Furthermore, the Express Edition of Visual Studio is freely available in several languages, namely VB, C# and C++. Take your pick. All ship with the same forms designer that generates backend code in one of the languages. But if you only need the designer, the code might not be relevant for you.

Microsoft Visio used to come with a template containing common Windows UI elements for this purpose. I don't know if it still does.

Jeff Attwood posted about this on CodingHorror - where he mentions Powerpoint prototyping

pen and paper, or if possible, whiteboard. Once you have something you personally think could work I'd go for as rough a computerized model as you can so you don't spend time agreeing font size before the workflow etc is done. The tool I have used here is my visual designer of Visual Studio (it doesn't look too good with screenshots, only good enough to convey what you'd like to build).

Pencil (runs within firefox)

As suggested, C# Express would be well for this, as like VB, it has a GUI designer, but it is also syntactically similar to Java, so - given what you are trying to learn and do with this, it might be a nice fit.

There is a pretty exhaustive list here:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypingTools
Important point is whether the tool has "black&white" (or "hand-drawn") skin for your mockups, as already commented by others. Many of the tools (including my own, MockupScreens) do.

wxGlade would work as well, plus it's free software.

http://balsamiq.com/ was already mentioned, but I want to explain why I like it.
It will allow you to sketch up a screenshot, and it still looks like a pen and paper version, or a whiteboard discussion.
If you get to detailed on your screenshot, then the customer thinks you are "done" and does not understand whats taking you so long to finish the project. So this "sketchyness" serves as another layer of abstraction.

MockupUI is another one, but its mockups don't look like hand-drawn. They look like the real thing and with real data. It lets you draw wireframes as well as native widgets inheriting their appearance from your OS configuration (aka Windows visual style).
About high-fidelity mockups: The risk that a customer thinks that it's "already done" is minimal as long as you do your mockups during the design specification phase of your project (that's before starting to code). On the contrary, a sketch may be too abstract for the customer to digest, unless he is a software designer too. Sketches are for developers not customers.
Wireframes (or sketches) and mockups are not the same thing and they have different uses. One is to explain functionality, the other is a representation of what the product will look like. Check out Yisela's post about the difference between wireframes and mockups.
Your question was about mockup screenshot software, but you ended-up buying a pretty powerful wireframing software.