Allow users to specify colors and toggle prefix in alert command

src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/ChatColor.java

@@ -139,4 +139,17 @@ public static String stripColor(final String input)
 
         return STRIP_COLOR_PATTERN.matcher(input).replaceAll("");
     }
+    public static String translateAlternateColorCodes(char altColorChar, String textToTranslate) 
+    {
+        char[] b = textToTranslate.toCharArray();
+        for (int i = 0; i < b.length - 1; i++) 
+        {
+            if (b[i] == altColorChar && "0123456789AaBbCcDdEeFfKkLlMmNnOoRr".indexOf(b[i+1]) > -1) 
+            {
+                b[i] = ChatColor.COLOR_CHAR;
+                b[i+1] = Character.toLowerCase(b[i+1]);
+            }
+        }
+        return new String(b);
+    }
 }

src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/command/CommandAlert.java

@@ -18,15 +18,24 @@ public void execute(CommandSender sender, String[] args)
         }
         if (args.length == 0)
         {
-            sender.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "Please follow this command by an announcement to make");
+            sender.sendMessage(ChatColor.RED + "You must supply a message.");
         } else
         {
             StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+            if (!args[0].contains("&h")) //They want to hide the alert prefix
+            {
             builder.append(ChatColor.DARK_PURPLE);
-            builder.append(" [Alert] ");
+            builder.append("[Alert] "); //No space at start.
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                args[0].replaceAll("&h", ""); //Remove hide control code from message
+            }
+
             for (String s : args)
             {
-                builder.append(s);
+
+                builder.append(ChatColor.translateAlternateColorCodes('&', s)); //Allow custom colours
                 builder.append(" ");
             }
             String message = builder.substring(0, builder.length() - 1);