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sgkdnay

11-26-20 05:41 PM

GameTooltip Issue

Trying to understand GameTooltip but for some reason not working as intended (reading tooltips)

Code:

function vQC_ToolTips(self)

        local lines = self:NumLines()

        print(lines)

        for i = 1, lines do

                local txtL = getglobal(self:GetName() .. "TextLeft" .. i)

                if txtL:GetText() ~= nil then

                        if txtL:GetText() == "Quest ID" then

                                local txtR = getglobal(self:GetName() .. "TextRight" .. i)

                                print("Found it "..txtR:GetText())

                        end

                end

        end

end

GameTooltip:HookScript("OnShow", vQC_ToolTips)

Some would give me information, other will not.
This will NOT give me QuestID into chat, also x.Numlines shows 3 when it's 11
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But this one will, while this x.NumLines shows 12 properly
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So what am i missing? Im trying to extract all information from whomever's addon's tooltip created

SDPhantom

11-26-20 06:44 PM

What exactly is your goal? Depending on what you intend to do, there are probably better ways in getting this info than tooltip scanning.

sgkdnay

11-26-20 06:57 PM

Just reading the tooltip, was looking for LeftText "Quest ID" then pull the info on RightText with actual "#". No modification or anything.

SDPhantom

11-27-20 12:17 AM

Reading tooltips is a desperate last-ditch effort to get information. From your screenshots, another addon is putting that into there, which means it's getting it form somewhere else to display it. The only thing I can suggest at this time is to look at that addon's code to see where it's getting that information from.

If you need further help, I need to know what addon you're trying to grab this from. If there's more to your code, it'll help to show all of it for context.

sgkdnay

11-27-20 12:40 AM

Its trying to read from AllTheThings.lua that generate tooltips. Most tooltip I could read and pull information, some cannot. I might have to ask the author and see if something can be fixed in regard to tooltip or of some sort.

SDPhantom

11-27-20 03:20 AM

If you're really set on tooltips, you might try looking at ItemRefTooltip that handles chat links.

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