I actually fixed it for myself for now, by making this change to line 348...

... which got me what I wanted.

EDIT: I made some modifications to the function, removing unneeded variables...

Code:

local function setTooltipItemColor(self)

	local text = getglobal(self:GetName().."TextLeft1")
	local texttext = text:GetText()
	
	if (texttext) then
	
		local _, _, rarity, _, _, _, _, _, _, _ = GetItemInfo(texttext)
		
		if (rarity) then			
			text:SetText(texttext .. "|cffffffff".." ("..itemQuality[rarity]..")|r")		
			self:Show()
		end
	
	end
	
end

This is what I am currently using and it seems to work fine.

If you are willing to implement this into a future version it would be great, but I'm not in a hurry for it at this point since I did the above.

EDIT: I noticed that when I'm browsing the Auction House the tooltip does not show the item quality in the same as if I'm mousing over something on my character page tab or in my bags, for some items? Items I have for sale myself do show the rarity information. Would be great if the same tooltip functionality worked for displaying item quality for items in the AH too, so I don't buy a blue paying purple prices!

BTW, I noticed you didn't use any semi-colons in the code in that fuction, was curious as to why?

Thank you for your time and efforts, it is appreciated.

Thank you for updating this with the tooltip fix that displayes the rarity level of the item under the mouse pointer.

I have a request. Could you add an option, for the tooltips, that the color of the item is NOT changed but next to the name the rarity level is still added in parenthesis?

Right now if I want the rarity level text I have to take the option of everything being in white. I'm read/green colorblind, which basically means I have a hard time distinguishing between like colors like blue and purple, but can see general color ranges. So I hate to lose all colors just so I can have a tooltip that lets me distinguish between a blue and a purple item.

Thank you for your time and efforts, it is appreciated. /bow

I agree with you, i have been playing with regular retail wow for a several years now, and i cant tell epic and rares, i cant tell weather quests are difficult (second to hardest) or easy (second from gray). this helps me so much, thanks.

When trying to view a tooltip for an item, to see the quality of the item ("Rare", etc.), I do see it at the end of the tooltip, but just for an instant, and then the line disappears and the bottom border of the tooltip moves up one line. Is anybody else seeing this?

I tried modifying the Tooltip_Rarity.lua to append the quailty of an item text to the first line of the tooltip, instead of the last, and the same thing happens, the info shows up for an instant, and then goes away again.

I finally tried doing a GameTooltip:SetText("HELLO!"), instead, and I see my tooltip saying "HELLO!" for an instant, and then the original tooltip shows up over it and replaces it.

So it seems there's something else redrawing the tooltip after ColorBlind does, removing the color blind information. Has anybody else seen this happen to them?

Is it a matter of changing the TOC and making sure ColorBlind loads last? I tried unloading ALL of my add-ons except for ColorBlind, but the problem still happens.

Any help would be appreciated, as I can't tell the difference between blue and purple very well! Thanks.

I made a small fix for Patch 2.2. Just unpack the file and put the Tooltip_Rarity.lua into the Colorblind directory. At least it works for me.

I have put the file on my webspace under http://www.space-blog.com/Colorblind-fix.rar

If Maul or whoever is in charge of this mod wants to put this changes on the site here, feel free so or contact me through my homepage.

An unofficial WoW 2.0 revision of the stand-alone MonoCombo component is available from http://www.realisticsoftware.com/pages/WoWAddons.html

Thank you, thank you thank you for updating this. I was about ready to dive in myself but I like writing code from the start rather than modifying someone else's. At any rate this is probably the one addon I couldn't do with. Being able to tell if an item is epic or rare is a great!