Authors CurseForge

local tooltip
local function create()
    local tip, leftside = CreateFrame("GameTooltip"), {}
    for i = 1, 2 do
        local L,R = tip:CreateFontString(), tip:CreateFontString()
        L:SetFontObject(GameFontNormal)
        R:SetFontObject(GameFontNormal)
        tip:AddFontStrings(L,R)
        leftside[i] = L
    end
    tip.leftside = leftside
    return tip
end
local function is_heroic_item(item)   -- returns boolean
    tooltip = tooltip or create()
    tooltip:SetOwner(UIParent,"ANCHOR_NONE")
    tooltip:ClearLines()
    tooltip:SetHyperlink(item)
    local t = tooltip.leftside[2]:GetText()
    tooltip:Hide()
    return (t == ITEM_HEROIC)
end

Works great, thank you.

Is there any way to detect if an item is heroic? My current solution is to check the ilvl, but once the next tier becomes avail this will no longer work. I could make a DB for items, but that seems to large of a solution for such a small scale project that I am working on.

I was wondering what editor everyone uses for programming.

I currently use notepad++, it has basic highlighting and that's about it.

I've tried a bunch of the ones listed on the wowwiki page but quite frankly I can't find one that has all the features I want, most specifically code formatting. I thought the one for visual studio would have this as the regular visual studio plug-ins all have code formatting but was disappointed when they didn't.