WoW:UIHANDLER OnTooltipSetItem: Difference between revisions

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← Widget handlers < OnTooltipSetItem

Invoked when an item's information is added to a tooltip.

Arguments

arg1: Tooltip - The Tooltip object to which an item was added.

Example

-- overload the base function for ItemRefTooltip with a custom routine
ItemRefTooltip:HookScript("OnTooltipSetItem", function(tooltip, ...)
  local name, link = tooltip:GetItem()
  local texture = select(10, GetItemInfo(link))
  --Add the name and path of the item's texture
  tooltip:AddLine(texture)
  --Show the texture graphic on the previous line
  tooltip:AddTexture(texture)
  --Repaint tooltip with newly added lines
  tooltip:Show()
end)

Details

This function was added in WoW 2.0.3

This gets called twice for Recipes which contain embedded items

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-{{widgetmethod}}
+{{widgethandler}}
 Invoked when an item's information is added to a tooltip.
@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
   -- overload the base function for ItemRefTooltip with a custom routine
-  Saved_OnTooltipSetItem = ItemRefTooltip:GetScript("OnTooltipSetItem");
+  ItemRefTooltip:HookScript("OnTooltipSetItem", function(tooltip, ...)
- ItemRefTooltip:SetScript("OnTooltipSetItem", My_OnTooltipSetItem);
- -- my custom routine
- function My_OnTooltipSetItem (tooltip, ...)
-   Saved_OnTooltipSetItem(tooltip, ...);
     local name, link = tooltip:GetItem()
     local texture = select(10, GetItemInfo(link))
@@ Line 23: / Line 19: @@
     --Repaint tooltip with newly added lines
     tooltip:Show()
-  end
+  end)