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Cannot get spell id from tooltip generated by metashowtooltip

Hello,

I'm facing a problem while trying to get spellid from tooltips. When I try to get it from a macro tooltip, it returns nil

Here is my code

Code:

_G["GameTooltip"]:HookScript("onShow",function(self)

    

    local spellName, spellID = self:GetSpell()

    print(spellID)

end)

The macro have a metashowtooltip (#showtooltip) instruction and the spell is well shown in the (what I thought was) the global tooltip.

Thanks for your help

EDIT: mounts return nil too. neither spells or items methods work

I got myself through it :)

here's how I did it

Code:

_G["GameTooltip"]:HookScript("onShow",function(this)



    local cooldownMS, gcdMS, spellName

    local spellName, spellID = this:GetSpell()

    local itemName, ItemLink = this:GetItem()

    if spellID ~= nil then

      cooldownMS, gcdMS = GetSpellBaseCooldown(spellID)

      print("ID:"..gcdMS)

    elseif itemName ~= nil then

      spellName, spellID = GetItemSpell(ItemLink)

      cooldownMS, gcdMS = GetSpellBaseCooldown(spellID)

      print("spell from item link:"..gcdMS)

    else

      spellName = _G[this:GetName().."TextLeft"..1]:GetText()

      _,_,_,_,_,_,spellID = GetSpellInfo(spellName)

      cooldownMS, gcdMS = GetSpellBaseCooldown(spellID)

      print("spell with no ID:"..gcdMS)

    end

end)