Originally Posted by Vlad
It does use tooltip to store, it's both a table and a widget and if you try tooltip[1234] and it doesn't exist, then it calls the function at __index to do a lookup and store the result string at that position, so next time you call tooltip[1234] it returns the string instead of doing a lookup. I refer to the tooltip object using "self" in the function, it's the same object.  |
Yes, but all the tooltip's methods like :NumLines and :SetOwner are stored in the original tooltip metatable's __index table rather than the tooltip itself. Your __index function seems to bypass this table, meaning it can't access the methods.