UseQuestLogSpecialItem vs. the world

[Phanx]

Dear Blizzard,

Your new objective tracker is the most delicate of flowers in a winter storm. Even looking sideways at seemingly unrelated things, like the world map, poisons it, rendering its quest item buttons unusable. It's even worse than the infamous and still-overly-sensitive-after-all-these-years UIDropDownMenu system.

You could solve the quest button problem very easily by making the UseQuestLogSpecialItem only require a hardware event, rather than it being a completely protected function. I understand you don't want addons automatically using quest items without the player making decisions, but I really don't see any serious potential for abuse if it requires a click/keypress. It's a quest that probably takes 5 minutes and zero thought beyond looking for the dot on the map -- side note: WTB epic quest chains back from vanilla! -- not raid progression or tournament PvP.

[Rilgamon]

*sign with 10 letters*

[myrroddin]

I've never used that API, but coincidentally I was thinking about it yesterday. Is it possible to securely hook UseQuestLogSpecialItem()? I'd imagine that would solve most of the problems.

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by myrroddin Is it possible to securely hook UseQuestLogSpecialItem()? I'd imagine that would solve most of the problems.

It's possible to securely hook anything:

hooksecurefunc("CastSpellByName", function(spell, target)
    print("You are casting", spell, "on the", target or "target", "unit.")
end)

But that doesn't solve any problems, since a secure hook just tells you that the function was called, and what arguments (if any) were passed to it; it doesn't magically let you call functions you're not allowed to call from addon code, and it doesn't let you affect the behavior of the original function.

[Xrystal]

Signed here too ... I was quite surprised that literally reparenting the main frame broke the buttons security.

What makes it worse is that some of the items aren't physically in the bags to use manually that way, so I sure hope those ones work by clicking on the mobs in question.

[JDoubleU00]

...Signed...

I do use the addon http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/questitembuttonfix, but Blizzard has broken all quest addons.