Fastest way of detecting heroic-mode item

[Farmbuyer]

Are we really stuck with generating a (presumably hidden) item tooltip, scraping the second line of text, and comparing it against ITEM_HEROIC? That seems woefully inefficient. Am I missing something obvious?


(Apropos of nothing, can anyone tell me what the ITEM_HEROIC_EPIC global ("Heroic Epic") is used for? I don't recall seeing that label anywhere.)

[cremor]

Originally Posted by Farmbuyer

(Apropos of nothing, can anyone tell me what the ITEM_HEROIC_EPIC global ("Heroic Epic") is used for? I don't recall seeing that label anywhere.)

Haven't checked it, but maybe in color-blind mode?

[kliegs]

I played with this for awhile and that's what I came up with. Create a tooltip, check the second line.

To flip this around - has anyone figured out a way to call GetItemInfo and get the heroic version back instead of normal? Or to be able to specify which you want without using an ItemID/Itemlink?

[Arrowmaster]

You should always be using ItemID/Itemlink's with GetItemInfo().

[kliegs]

Originally Posted by Arrowmaster

You should always be using ItemID/Itemlink's with GetItemInfo().

I've got a mod I wrote for our guild where users can specify an item and it does a lookup. If they give a link I use it, but sometimes they'll type in the name of the item and I want to look it up and return the information as a link instead of text.

[Farmbuyer]

Originally Posted by kliegs

To flip this around - has anyone figured out a way to call GetItemInfo and get the heroic version back instead of normal? Or to be able to specify which you want without using an ItemID/Itemlink?

Originally Posted by Arrowmaster

You should always be using ItemID/Itemlink's with GetItemInfo().

I think you guys may be talking past each other. Yes, GetItemInfo() can only be fed itemIDs/itemlinks (and under a reduced set of circumstances, plain item names). There's also no way to additionally tell it to only return items marked as heroic. The "heroic-ness" of an item is built into the itemID, unfortunately.