Achievement Hyperlinks

[Walkerbo]

Hi all

I am trying to build a hyperlink that will display a custom achievement.

I want the hyperlink to display my achievement Title, Character Name and Date strings.

I also want to find the achievement frame, that I would like to use as an addon frame.

Here is the image of the achievement frame yet I have not been able to find that frame yet.

Any help out there that can help me with these issues.

[Walkerbo]

Hey all

I have tried so many ways to try and get this working without success, and at this point, I have to accept there is likely no way to do it.

Oh well, we can't always get what we want.

Cheers all

[SDPhantom]

What you have in the image isn't the achievement frame, it's a tooltip. Specifically ItemRefTooltip.

function ShowCustomTooltip(title,character,date,description)
--  Mimics SetItemRef() starting at ItemRef.lua:389
    ShowUIPanel(ItemRefTooltip);
    if not ItemRefTooltip:IsShown() then ItemRefTooltip:SetOwner(UIParent, "ANCHOR_PRESERVE"); end
 
--  Mimics :ItemRefSetHyperlink() at ItemRef.lua:791
    ItemRefTooltip:SetPadding(0,0);
 
--  Custom Text (Replaces :SetHyperlink() at ItemRef.lua:793)
    ItemRefTooltip:ClearLines();
    ItemRefTooltip:AddLine(title,1,1,1);
    ItemRefTooltip:AddLine(" ");
    ItemRefTooltip:AddLine(("Achievement earned by %s on %s"):format(character,date),0,1,0);
    if description then
        ItemRefTooltip:AddLine(" ");
        ItemRefTooltip:AddLine(description,1,1,1);
    end
 
    if ItemRefTooltipTextLeft1 and ItemRefTooltipTextLeft1:GetRight()-ItemRefTooltip.CloseButton:GetLeft()>0 then
        ItemRefTooltip:SetPadding(16,0);
    end
end

As for sending this through chat to another player, links are encoded with an achievement ID and the GUID of the player. Links of any type do not support custom data. You'll have to find your own way to encode and transmit this info and it'll require your addon on both ends.

[Walkerbo]

Hi SDPhantom

Yea, I also went down the tooltip path but it too did not solve my issue.

You are right, the only way to get this to work is to ensure both players have the addon, which is not guaranteed.

So I have now accepted that it will not work the way I wanted it to, (and I can see why).

Cheers