Authors CurseForge

Hey,

I was wondering if i could get a bit of help with something. The current way that the achievement panel works you can shift click an achievement and add that link to the message you are typing.



What i wanted help with was intercepting the achievement link when my editbox has focus and when the achievement is shift clicked



edit: If a mod sees this can they move it to "Development Help" please

You could hooksecurefunc("AchievementButton_OnClick", "yourfunctionhere")

local function yourfunctionhere(self, button, down, ignoreModifiers)
local achLink = GetAchievementLink(self.id)
-- do whatever you want with the link then.
end

Keep in mind Blizzard_AchievementUI is load on demand so you need to set your hook after you detect it loaded in ADDON_LOADED event with arg1 == "Blizzard_AchievementUI".

Edit: The hell, 2nd time this week I post in parallel to Phanx.

Thanks guys, here is what i decided to go with in the end. This grabs the links from achievements and quests

WoWPuG_OnAddonLoadCatcher = CreateFrame("Frame");
WoWPuG_OnAddonLoadCatcher:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, ...) 
	local arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6, arg7, arg8, arg9 = ...;
	
	if arg1 == "Blizzard_AchievementUI" then
		WoWPuG_SetupAchievementGrabber();
	end
end)
WoWPuG_OnAddonLoadCatcher:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED");


function WoWPuG_SetupQuestGrabber()
	local function QuestLinkGrabber(self, button, down, ignoreModifiers)
		local questLink = GetQuestLink(self:GetID())
		WoWPuG_AddLinkToMessage(questLink)
	end

	hooksecurefunc("QuestLogTitleButton_OnClick", QuestLinkGrabber)
end

function WoWPuG_SetupAchievementGrabber()
	local function AchievementLinkGrabber(self, button, down, ignoreModifiers)
		local achLink = GetAchievementLink(self.id)
		WoWPuG_AddLinkToMessage(achLink)
	end
	
	hooksecurefunc("AchievementButton_OnClick", AchievementLinkGrabber)
end

function WoWPuG_AddLinkToMessage(Link)
	if WPuG_SetupGrp_MessageBox then	-- if the edit box has loaded
		if IsModifiedClick() then	-- if we are holding a modifier	(alt/ctrl/shift)
			if WPuG_SetupGrp_MessageBox:HasFocus() then	-- if the editbox has focus
				WPuG_SetupGrp_MessageBox:Insert(Link)	-- then add the link to the message
			end
		end
	end
end

Quote from Deepac

I use a much simpler method in LFMonitor to intercept any link like this. In the following code, LFMonitor.EditFocus is the edit box in my addon which currently has focus. Pretty sure I stole this code from somewhere but can't remember where, so all credit to the original author.

local orig_ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow = ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow

function ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow()
 
    return LFMonitor.EditFocus or orig_ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow()
	
end

This is the best idea yet. It grabs item links, quests and achievements. Thank you so much. Although I couldnt get it to work i changed it to:

function WoWPuG_SetupQuestGrabber()
-- Use my editbox as the active window
	local orig_ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow = ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow

	function ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow()
		if WPuG_SetupGrp_MessageBox:HasFocus() then	-- if my editbox has focus
			return WPuG_SetupGrp_MessageBox
		else
			return orig_ChatEdit_GetActiveWindow()
		end
	end
end

Quote from Phanx

WoWPuG_OnAddonLoadCatcher:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, ...) 
	local arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6, arg7, arg8, arg9 = ...;
	
	if arg1 == "Blizzard_AchievementUI" then

Just curious... why bother using a vararg, when you immediately assigning to to individual variables and then only use the first value, instead of just naming the incoming parameter directly?

WoWPuG_OnAddonLoadCatcher:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, addon)
	if addon == "Blizzard_AchievementUI" then

Mostly just sticking to old habits, then when i am looking around going "how did i do xxx?" its easier to see