Item Tooltip from Item Link

[Jaundar]

Hi, Im looking for a way to get the an items tooltip text by providing an item link/id.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Jaundar

[robodude666]

Originally Posted by Jaundar Hi, Im looking for a way to get the an items tooltip text by providing an item link/id. Any help would be great. Thanks, Jaundar

Hey,

I seen it done before, but I dont think its a function that does it... What you can do is use GetItemInfo() (both id and itemstring work) will output a table full of values about this item. From that table you can make your own tooltip.
Link: http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetItemInfo
If your using Sea, check out http://www.wowwiki.com/Sea.wow.item.getItemInfo its basically the same thing but I think it gives you more info.

[Elkano]

The other method would be:
- generate a (hidden) tooltip
- 'scan' the tooltip (have a look at the tooltip's XML file for the string names)
Say your hidden tooltip is called TTH, then you wold call eg getglobal("TTHTextLeft1"):GetText() or getglobal("TTHTextRight1"):GetText(); afair a normal tooltip can have up to 15 lines.

Yo will then have the whole text of the tooltip, but without text size, color and so on.

[Jaundar]

Hey, thanks for the info. How do I generate a tooltip?


Thanks,

Jaundar

[Elkano]

first you have to declare the tooltip in the xml file:
<GameTooltip name="TTH" inherits="GameTooltipTemplate" parent="UIParent" hidden="true" />

Then you simply use one of the many provided functions to populate the tooltip with data:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Widget_API#GameTooltip
eg: TTH:SetHyperlink(itemID)

where itemID is sth like item:1:2:3:4

[Jaundar]

Hey, thanks again for the info I got it working.

Thanks,

Jaundar