[LudiusMaximus]

When I apply SetText() to a tooltip line like

_G["GameTooltipTextLeft1"]:SetText("bla", 1, 0, 0, 1, true)

it does not even change the text colour. Only the text is updated.

So if I want to have the same text colours in the modified tooltip, I would have to built my copy tooltip from scratch only using AddLine() and AddDoubleLine().


EDIT: This is not viable either. When I do GameTooltip:ClearLines() and refill the tooltip with my stored plus added lines, future calls of GameTooltip:GetItem() will only get nil, as the item is apparently cleared by ClearLines().

I can overcome this by

local originalGetItem = GameTooltip.GetItem
GameTooltip:HookScript("OnHide", function(self)
  GameTooltip.GetItem = originalGetItem
end)

and

local name, link = GameTooltip:GetItem()
GameTooltip:ClearLines()
GameTooltip.GetItem = function(self) return name, link end

But this is getting more and more cumbersome...