[sylvanaar]

I have recently gotten back into modding for a bit. I have been working to clean up and freshen up Prat as much as I can.

On the way I have discovered lots of new API's built into the game which are letting me do new and cool things.

I wanted to share this one, because I know how much the folks here like simple modifications. This one is so simple I was surprised myself.

Have a look at the demo first: https://www.screencast.com/t/OHH4fg97ul9U

There was a time where that would have been extremely difficult to implement. Luckily, Blizzard has done all the work. All you have to do is make a couple API calls to enable it!

Here is the code that I am using in Prat. If you copy/paste it to try it, leave off the "module:"

function module:EnterSelectMode(frame)
    frame = frame or SELECTED_CHAT_FRAME
 
    frame:SetTextCopyable(true)
    frame:EnableMouse(true)
    frame:SetOnTextCopiedCallback(function(frame, text, num_copied)
      frame:SetTextCopyable(false)
      frame:EnableMouse(false)
      frame:SetOnTextCopiedCallback(nil)
    end)
  end

I hope you find lots of uses for it!