Help calling game tooltips

[krissie182]

So I'm working on my first addon and I'm working with ace3 and such. I'm working on a frame with certain icons in it representing various in game items and when I mouse over them I would like for them to display the wow tooltip for that particular item. So far I've got the tooltip to show up when I mouse over and fade out when I'm not but once it's hidden it will not reappear until I mouse over an npc or another character. Any ideas on how I might fix this little issue. (Tiger Lily was my little test icon)

local function DrawGroup1(container)
  local LilyIcon = AceGUI:Create("Icon")
  LilyIcon:SetText("Tiger Lily")
  LilyIcon:SetImage("interface\\icons\\inv_misc_herb_tigerlily")
  LilyIcon:SetImageSize(30,30)
  container:AddChild(LilyIcon)
  LilyIcon:SetCallback("OnEnter", function(widget) GameTooltip:SetHyperlink("\\124cffffffff\\124Hitem:36904:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\\124h[Tiger Lily]\\124h\\124r")end)
  LilyIcon:SetCallback("OnLeave", function(widget) GameTooltip:FadeOut() end)

I may be doing this completely wrong as it was just a trial and error kind of thing.

[ravagernl]

Try

  LilyIcon:SetCallback("OnEnter", function(widget) GameTooltip:SetHyperlink("\\124cffffffff\\124Hitem:36904:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\\124h[Tiger Lily]\\124h\\124r") GameTooltip:Show() end)

[krissie182]

For some reason after adding that, the tooltip wouldn't show at all. Even after removing the added code the tooltip still isn't working. Tooltips are getting very frustrating -_-

[SDPhantom]

Originally Posted by mrruben5 Try LilyIcon:SetCallback("OnEnter", function(widget) GameTooltip:SetHyperlink("\\124cffffffff\\124Hitem:36904:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\\124h[Tiger Lily]\\124h\\124r") GameTooltip:Show() end)

Originally Posted by krissie182 For some reason after adding that, the tooltip wouldn't show at all. Even after removing the added code the tooltip still isn't working. Tooltips are getting very frustrating -_-

The code is escaping the backslashes and not the decimal code for the pipe character. Also, the pipe character doesn't need to be encoded with the decimal code when not entered through /run.

Try this instead.

LilyIcon:SetCallback("OnEnter", function(widget)
    GameTooltip:SetHyperlink("|cffffffff|Hitem:36904:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0|h[Tiger Lily]|h|r");
    GameTooltip:Show();
end);