Getting Item ID from chat link and name from ID

[thrahistan]

Hi everyone !
My first question is:
Is it possible to get the Item ID from a chat link?
If it is:
How to get the Name from that ID?

I couldn't find anything in the wiki :-(

Thanks!

[Shinni]

ZO_LinkHandler_ParseLink( itemLink )
returns name, color, type, id, +19 other attributes which I can't identify.
so you want to call

_, _, _, itemId = ZO_LinkHandler_ParseLink( itemLink )

Getting the name from the itemId isn't possible.
You can only get informations of items you possess or if someone else posted the link in the chat.

[thrahistan]

ah thx for that...

that I can't get the name is bad course I would want the translation from that item when it's in another language
if someone posts a german item in the link the name is in german unless he/she uses the english client
but if you click on that item it's the english name

Or is it better to do another way for the translated item name link (it should stay as link)?
Maybe this isn't even possible :-/

[Shinni]

Originally Posted by thrahistan if someone posts a german item in the link the name is in german unless he/she uses the english client but if you click on that item it's the english name

yeah...that's right.
maybe there is a way to get the correct item's name. I'll search for it.

edit:
the translation happen internally via the tooltipcontrol
http://wiki.esoui.com/Controls#TooltipControl
it has a method :SetLink

maybe you can access the data via
:GetNumChildren()
:GetChild(child)
if you're lucky you can access it's labels and read the string.

[thrahistan]

thanks !
I will try later

I will let you know if it works later

[thrahistan]

I'm back here!

I've found out that the chat links are postet like this:

"|COLORCODE:item:id:s:o:m:e:n:u:m:b:e:r:s|h[YourLanguageItemName]|h"

the function SetLink() needs "string aLink" as parameter but I don't know what to use here D:

GetChild and GetNumChildren
How do i use these functions?
I don't quiete understand because everything I've done was giving errors

Thanks again!

[BadVolt]

Originally Posted by thrahistan I'm back here! I've found out that the chat links are postet like this: "|COLORCODE:item:id:s:o:m:e:n:u:m:b:e:r:s|h[YourLanguageItemName]|h" the function SetLink() needs "string aLink" as parameter but I don't know what to use here D: GetChild and GetNumChildren How do i use these functions? I don't quiete understand because everything I've done was giving errors Thanks again!

So. 1st function, SetLink. If I remember right, it is used with tooltips, so you have to create new tooltip object and apply this method to it. Or you can use standart tooltips.
Try this:

ItemTooltip:Clear()
ItemTooltip:SetLink(GetItemLink(1,1))
ItemTooltip:SetHidden(false)
ItemTooltip:SetAlpha(1)

It should display info about your item in 1st slot in the bag.

2nd and 3rd functions are providing info about XML stucture.