How to interact with all items

[sercankd]

As you know when you shift click any item while auction window is open, it writes item name to search box. what i wanted is make similiar function like this with ALT+click instead of shift click. i managed to hook up items in bags but i want to interact with all items in profession window, bags etc.

i use this to interact with bag items

function PandaTranslate:AUCTION_HOUSE_SHOW(...)
     self:SecureHook(_G, "ContainerFrameItemButton_OnModifiedClick")
 end
 function PandaTranslate:ContainerFrameItemButton_OnModifiedClick(this, button)
     if (button ~= "RightButton") or (not IsAltKeyDown()) then
         return
     end
    BrowseName:SetText(Item_List[GetContainerItemID(this:GetParent():GetID(), this:GetID())])
 end

since there isnt similiar object to hook in profession window like ContainerFrameItemButton, i couldnt make it work. but i dont just want to hook profession frame, is there anyway to hook all items like this?

[Lombra]

You should use HandleModifiedItemClick for this purpose.

local origHandleModifiedItemClick = HandleModifiedItemClick
function HandleModifiedItemClick(link)
	if not link then
		return false
	end
	if IsAltKeyDown() and GetMouseButtonClicked() == "RightButton" then
		-- do your stuff here
		return true
	end
	return origHandleModifiedItemClick(link)
end

Note that GetMouseButtonClicked() doesn't work when clicking chat links.

[sercankd]

sorry i couldnt make it work, i am new to wow addon making, i just try to make some translation addon for my personal usage

Item_List array works with ID of an item, passing a link to function idk how to handle it

function HandleModifiedItemClick(link)
    if not link then
        return false
    end
    if IsAltKeyDown() and GetMouseButtonClicked() == "RightButton" then
        BrowseName:SetText(Item_List[GetContainerItemID(this:GetParent():GetID(), this:GetID())])
        return true
    end
    return origHandleModifiedItemClick(link)
end

[Lombra]

Okok, no problem. You can extract the ID from a link like this:

local itemID = tonumber(strmatch(link, "item:(%d+)"))

It will probably error if you try with things that aren't really items. If you want to avoid that you can check whether strmatch returns anything before passing it to tonumber.

[sercankd]

Thank you it works pretty well with bag items like i did before but not with profession frame items. when i click skill reagents nothing happens

[Lombra]

I have a feeling that'll be due to those frames not being registered for right clicks, which sadly is the case for most frames that don't use right clicks. Not much to do about it short of explicitly registering right clicks on the buttons in question.

[sercankd]

Thank you again, i managed to write workaround for that. I just solved with ingame command