Authors CurseForge

Hi Mikari,

I do this in my addon Item Tooltip Cleaner. The code is pretty simple, if you want to take a look.

local function RemoveMadeByLines( tooltip )
	local tooltipName = tooltip:GetName()
	for i = 2, tooltip:NumLines() do
		local line = _G[ tooltipName .. "TextLeft" .. i ]
		local text = line:GetText()
		if text and text:match( "^<Made by %S+>$" ) then
			line:SetText( "" )
			tooltip:Show()
			break
		end
	end
end

for _, tooltip in pairs( {
	"GameTooltip",
	"ItemRefTooltip",
	"ShoppingTooltip1",
	"ShoppingTooltip2",
} ) do
	if _G[ tooltip ] then
		_G[ tooltip ]:HookScript( "OnTooltipSetItem", RemoveMadeByLines )
	end
end

The function looks at the text on each line in the tooltip, starting at line 2. If it finds a line that matches the “Made by” pattern, it sets that line’s text to nothing, calls the tooltip’s “Show” method to refresh the tooltip, and then stops looking.

The “for” loop goes through a list of common tooltips, checks if they exist, and hooks their “OnTooltipSetItem” script with the function. Then, every time a tooltip is told to show an item, it runs your function. Using “HookScript” instead of “SetScript” makes sure that you don’t overwrite functions from other addons that want to do the same thing.

Are you on a non-English client?