Icon and Texture tinting in Addons

[Baumkuchen3]

I've seen a few addons which obviously tint some of their used icons.

How does this work "zo_iconFormat(...)"?

[sirinsidiator]

zo_iconFormatInheritColor is your friend. Just use the |c format in front of it.

[Baumkuchen3]

Great, now it works. Here is an example for other people:

Label:SetText(string.format("|cFF0000%s|r", zo_iconFormatInheritColor(texturePath, textureSize, textureSize)))

Additional information:
Text_Formatting_Examples

Thank you.

[sirinsidiator]

In addition you can use ZO_ColorDef in order to simplify the handling of everything related to colors. Your example would then look like this:

local myIcon = zo_iconFormatInheritColor(texturePath, textureSize, textureSize)
local MY_COLOR = ZO_ColorDef:New("FF0000")
label:SetText(MY_COLOR:Colorize(myIcon))

There are also a lot of predefined colors used by the game. You can find them in defaultcolordefs.lua.

p.s. in Lua you'd typically use lower_case or camelCase names for regular variables and ALL_CAPS for constants. Only classes or (at least in ESO) functions should use an uppercase letter.