Clickable item links in textbuffer

[CrazyDutchGuy]

I made a textbuffer and i am sending messages to it with :AddMessage(some_msg) If there is an item link in the message, i can't click on it and get a tooltip. If i send the same message to the regular chat window like d(some_msg) then it works. What am i missing to make item links work in textbuffers ?

[Seerah]

Is your textbuffer mouse enabled?

[Xrystal]

Originally Posted by Seerah Is your textbuffer mouse enabled?

ooh, good point...

darn... yes mine is .. scratch that idea

[BadVolt]

Same for me doesn't work at all. May be we should use some SetTooltip method or sth like that.

[CrazyDutchGuy]

Originally Posted by Seerah Is your textbuffer mouse enabled?

It wasn't, but making it mouse enabled didn't make a difference. Below the code that makes the textbuffer

	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER = WINDOW_MANAGER:CreateControl("CDGLibGuiWindow_TB", CDGLibGui.window.ID, CT_TEXTBUFFER)	
 	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetLinkEnabled(true)
	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetMouseEnabled(true)
 	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetFont("ZoFontChat")
 	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetHidden(false)
	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetClearBufferAfterFadeout(false)
 	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetLineFade(10, 3)
 	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetMaxHistoryLines(100)
	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetDimensions(500-64, 264-64)
	CDGLibGui.window.TEXTBUFFER:SetAnchor(TOPLEFT,CDGLibGui.window.ID,TOPLEFT,32,32)

[Iyanga]

Well, not sure about TESO, but TextBuffers are usually not used for display but used to edit the text over and over again until the code is finished and then copying the result to the real edit control for the display. That's why it's called "Buffer".
So it's likely that the TextBuffer just doesn't do a lot of stuff other controls for displaying stuff is doing.

[Xrystal]

Originally Posted by Iyanga Well, not sure about TESO, but TextBuffers are usually not used for display but used to edit the text over and over again until the code is finished and then copying the result to the real edit control for the display. That's why it's called "Buffer". So it's likely that the TextBuffer just doesn't do a lot of stuff other controls for displaying stuff is doing.

Makes sense. If that was what it was designed for. But some of the functionality that is listed for it clearly gives the impression that it is used for displaying information (AddMessage) including links (SetLinkEnabled) etc.

[BadVolt]

Originally Posted by Iyanga Well, not sure about TESO, but TextBuffers are usually not used for display but used to edit the text over and over again until the code is finished and then copying the result to the real edit control for the display. That's why it's called "Buffer". So it's likely that the TextBuffer just doesn't do a lot of stuff other controls for displaying stuff is doing.

That's fine, but TextBuffer have method "SetLinkEnabled". And it do not work.

[CrazyDutchGuy]

As far as i could dig into how the current chat tabs work and as far as i can remember at the moment (@work atm) is that the eso ChatTabs also use TEXTBUFFER to display text. I tried to see if there was a difference between the implementation of the eso chattabs and my own textbuffer, but i couldn't find any.

Could it be that some additional event handling needs to be done to make the tooltips work ?

[Xrystal]

I had the same problem as well. Even having SetLinkEnabled(true) set for the textbuffer didn't make a difference. It wasn't an addon breaker for me so I just changed it from the link displaying to the name.