Tooltip issues

[Slakah]

Basically when using

GameTooltip:AddLine("Right click to remove "..name")

I get this (without concatenation):




Heres all my code

local function ShowItemTooltip(self)
	GameTooltip:SetOwner(self, "ANCHOR_RIGHT")
	if self.id then
		local name, link = GetItemInfo(self.id)
		GameTooltip:SetHyperlink(link)
		GameTooltip:AddLine("Right click to remove "..name")
	else GameTooltip:SetText("Drag an item here", nil, nil, nil, nil, true)
	end
end

Any ideas?

[Everglow]

Not sure what you need help with, Slakah. I see a few different things. I'm guessing that's not actually the code you have, but rather something more like this (minus the line in red):

 
local function ShowItemTooltip(self)
   GameTooltip:SetOwner(self, "ANCHOR_RIGHT")
   if self.id then
      local _, link = GetItemInfo(self.id)
      GameTooltip:SetHyperlink(link)
      GameTooltip:AddLine("Right click to remove this item")
   else
      GameTooltip:SetText("Drag an item here", nil, nil, nil, nil, true)
   end
   GameTooltip:Show()
end

If you add the line in red, the borders will adjust to fit your text. Is that the issue you posted about?

[VagrantEsha]

I've seen this, sometimes the tooltip is stubborn about resizing to fit the new line. Sometimes it's the cause of a mod, sometimes it happens naturally. The tooltip can be a very volatile thing.

Does that improper resizing of the tooltip's backdrop happen everywhere, Slakah, or just for that button? If it happens everywhere then the simple option would be to figure out the size of the font-string in the code and resize the tooltip whenever the line is added, so that the tooltip size includes the size of the added line. You could also use a library like LibGratuity-3.0 to do this easily, I suppose.

[jaliborc]

Tooltips don't automatically resize themselves when you add text to them. To 'force' a size update, you have to call the 'Show' function.

[Slakah]

Ahhh I just assumed the tooltip would auto resize when adding a new line.

Thanks for the help!