Editing WoW:UIOBJECT GameTooltip (section)

=== GameTooltipTextLeft&lt;num&gt; ===
Each line of text from the game tooltip is represented by one of these objects, replace &lt;num&gt; with the appropriate line number (from 1 to the number of lines returned from GameTooltip:NumLines()). To obtain the text of a line call the [[API FontString GetText|GameTooltipTextLeft''&lt;num&gt;'':GetText()]] function.

:''Important: this is currently bugged. When a tooltip has 9 or more FontString GameTooltipTextLeft9 and GameTooltipTextRight9 do not exist. These FontStrings are incorrectly named GameTooltipTextLeft1 and GameTooltipTextRight1 duplicating those of the first line. The only reliable way to get the information out of the tooltip is to iterate through its child regions with GameTooltip:GetRegions().''

;Example
Looping through all tooltip lines
<pre>
local function EnumerateTooltipLines_helper(...)
    for i = 1, select("#", ...) do
        local region = select(i, ...)
        if region and region:GetObjectType() == "FontString" then
            local text = region:GetText() -- string or nil
        end
    end
end

function EnumerateTooltipLines(tooltip) -- good for script handlers that pass the tooltip as the first argument.
    EnumerateTooltipLines_helper(tooltip:GetRegions())
end
</pre>

;Macro Equivalent
 /run for i = 1, GameTooltip:NumLines() do local mytext = _G["GameTooltipTextLeft"..i] local text = mytext:GetText(); print(text) end

;Notes
* The tooltip displayed when the mouse is hovering over players and/or NPCs on the minimap is such that all the units being displayed are actually only on the first tooltip line.  So, if the tooltip showed 4 players, the names are all in the first tooltip line, delimited by "\n".