Getting an item's color

[vandel212]

Hi, I looked on the wiki API, and did search on the forums here, and didn't find anything. If I have an Item Link, is there a way I can get it's color (White, green, blue etc...)?

Thank you.

[votan]

Originally Posted by vandel212 Hi, I looked on the wiki API, and did search on the forums here, and didn't find anything. If I have an Item Link, is there a way I can get it's color (White, green, blue etc...)? Thank you.

Jo

local qualityText = "Text you want to colorize"
local quality = GetItemLinkQuality(itemLink)
qualityText = GetItemQualityColor(quality):Colorize(qualityText)

[vandel212]

Originally Posted by votan Jo local qualityText = "Text you want to colorize" local quality = GetItemLinkQuality(itemLink) qualityText = GetItemQualityColor(quality):Colorize(qualityText)

Thank you for the very quick response! Will this return the name of the color? And by that I mean will it say "Green"? Or will it just make the text green? Because I actually need the name of the color.

[votan]

Originally Posted by vandel212 Thank you for the very quick response! Will this return the name of the color? And by that I mean will it say "Green"? Or will it just make the text green? Because I actually need the name of the color.

Yes, using the same "quality" value:

local qualityText = GetString("SI_ITEMQUALITY", quality)

It returns the localized name of the quality.
Or do you really mean the color name?

/edit: I did not found strings defining "green" or "blue", etc. So I think you have to create your own strings.

[Ayantir]

local qualityNames = {}
    for i = 0, 5 do
        local color = GetItemQualityColor(i)
        local qualName = color:Colorize(GetString("SI_ITEMQUALITY", i))
        qualityNames[i] = qualName
    end

[vandel212]

Originally Posted by votan Yes, using the same "quality" value: local qualityText = GetString("SI_ITEMQUALITY", quality) It returns the localized name of the quality. Or do you really mean the color name? /edit: I did not found strings defining "green" or "blue", etc. So I think you have to create your own strings.

So close! It doesn't return a color, which isn't a problem as I could just relate words to colors, but it's not full proof. For example, White Text items will return a value of "worn", but Green Text items return "worn" as well, so I have no way of knowing the actual color since "worn" could be 2 or more colors.

[votan]

Originally Posted by vandel212 So close! It doesn't return a color, which isn't a problem as I could just relate words to colors, but it's not full proof. For example, White Text items will return a value of "worn", but Green Text items return "worn" as well, so I have no way of knowing the actual color since "worn" could be 2 or more colors.

Are you sure? Show us some code.

If it's "green" and returns an item-quality of 0=worn, it can not be "green".
There may some exceptions for items which do not exist in different qualities: Fishes and trophys have only one assigned quality: "Blue" fishes are always "blue".

[merlight]

Originally Posted by vandel212 So close! It doesn't return a color, which isn't a problem as I could just relate words to colors, but it's not full proof. For example, White Text items will return a value of "worn", but Green Text items return "worn" as well, so I have no way of knowing the actual color since "worn" could be 2 or more colors.

Definitely a typo in your code. You're giving an uninitialized/non-number second argument to GetString("SI_ITEMQUALITY", quality), and it then returns what it would for the default (0).

[votan]

Originally Posted by merlight Definitely a typo in your code. You're giving an uninitialized/non-number second argument to GetString("SI_ITEMQUALITY", quality), and it then returns what it would for the default (0).

I was talking about the quality variable of the previous code example.
here is the complete code:

local function QualityNameFromItemLink(itemLink)
  local quality = GetItemLinkQuality(itemLink)
  local qualityText = GetString("SI_ITEMQUALITY", quality)
  return qualityText 
end

[vandel212]

Originally Posted by votan I was talking about the quality variable of the previous code example. here is the complete code: local function QualityNameFromItemLink(itemLink)   local quality = GetItemLinkQuality(itemLink)   local qualityText = GetString("SI_ITEMQUALITY", quality)   return qualityText end

Yep, I messed up! I must have had the same variable showing up in the loop. Now Worn items are grey, and Fine items are Green. Thanks for the help, this'll add a nice bit of pazaz to the project.