Is there a max amount of text a tooltip can take?

[Sephalo]

For some reason the last line of a tooltip from one of my items is not showing in the tooltip when I mouse over the item.
I added the same tooltip to a spell and it seems to work.

This is what the description looks like in the object editor:

object editor description

|cff4169e1Requires Level:|r 8|n|cff4169e1Slot:|r Two Hand (bow)|n|cff4169e1Weight: |r14|n|cffffa500|n119 Damage|n79.3 DPS|n1.50 Speed|r|cffffcc00|n|n+ 0 Strength|n+ 14 Agility|n+ 0 Intelligence|r|n|cff48dd00|n+ 13 Haste|n+ 7 Wisdom|n+ 192 Hit Points|r|n|n|cff33ffffForest Boons: Increases the chance that your Forest Shots will generate a Nature Boon by 20%.|r

This is what I eventually get in the item tooltip ingame:

tooltip

Requires Level: 8
Slot: Two Hand (bow)
Weight: 14

119 Damage
79.3 DPS
1.50 Speed

+ 0 Strength
+ 14 Agility
+ 0 Intelligence

+ 13 Haste
+ 7 Wisdom
+ 192 Hit Points

Forest Boons: Increases the chance that your Forest

So the last line is missing.
Do I have to live with this, or did I do something wrong?

 

[rulerofiron99]

I think the tooltip is too long.

Remove the "+ 0 Intelligence" and see if it shows up.

The only way I'm aware of to skip remaining content in a string is to put a ",s" in there, although I've only ever done that in the Interface Editor.

 

[Sephalo]

I think the tooltip is too long.

Well I also thought it might just be too long, but then I saw this post:
LINK

In that post I see tooltips that are much longer even.

Or is there a maximum amount of times you can do "|n" in a tooltip or something?

 

[rulerofiron99]

Oh wow.

Maybe it does have something to do with the amount of "|n" in a tooltip... time for some experimentation.

 

[edo494]

Heros description in dota is far longer then this so it is most likely problem with |n, ill test it

EDIT:

I have to ask, do you use JNGP, because Ive copied your and got

image

Also, Ive tried 1|n2|n3|n4|n5|n6|n7|n8|n9|n10|n11|n12|n13|n14|n15|n16|n17|n18|n19|n20|n21|n22|n23|n24|n25
and it worked well, its 24 new lines I think
And yes I use JNGP

 

[Sephalo]

I'm not on my own computer atm, else I would've tested it myself.
But yeah, might be the |n that fcks it up.

EDIT: but wait a sec... Why would it cut a sentence that has no |n in it, in half...

 

[Mr_Bean]

It must think that it can't take any more characters for some reason...
Did you test the tooltip on normal World Editor?

 

[Sephalo]

It must think that it can't take any more characters for some reason...
Did you test the tooltip on normal World Editor?

Well the editor shouldn't matter I guess. Because I can perfectly save the tooltip in the editor. Its just that ingame it doesn't show properly.

However...
I can try it in a map without using JNGP.

 

[Sephalo]

Yes I am using JNGP combined with WEU but for some reason it doesn't work properly with the tooltips I guess.

 

[rulerofiron99]

Just tested the tooltip myself, using vanilla worldedit, displays fine. So definitely nothing to do with editor, and nothing to do with the text itself.

Do you have any modifications on your warcraft? Any game interface changes?

 

[Sephalo]

This is what I got.
Ability version seems to work.
Item version doesn't.

 

[rulerofiron99]

My item version works fine.

Busy checking if any of the item flags make a difference, so far actively used makes none.

 

[Sephalo]

Even when copy/pasting the text into a new map, freshly made with normal world editor (not JNGP) and testing it ingame it doesnt show the last line of the tooltip for me.

Tried windowed mode/fullscreen mode too, but that didnt make a diff.

I also regulary play on Bnet, so updating wc3 isnt the thing, cus I always have the latest patch.

 

[rulerofiron99]

That is quite interesting. I've tinker around in the item editor for the past 15 minutes with no success, so I'm sorry but I won't be able to help any further.

Last question - in your editor under preferences, do you have Allow Negative Real Values set?

 

[Mr_Bean]

Last question - in your editor under preferences, do you have Allow Negative Real Values set?

How would this affect tooltips? :/

 

[rulerofiron99]

Grasping at straws. With Blizzard, you never know, right?

 

[Sephalo]

Don't have negative real values set.
Maybe I should try it.. who knows for some strange reason.
(Edit: however It should only affect the editor. Not the ingame result I suppose.)

But since I use JNGP I can always use negatives anyway if I shift+enter on something.
(I also tried shift+enter and then adding the text but that also didnt work)

 

[PurgeandFire]

I remember having this same problem. I'm not sure how Apheraz_Lucent got around it in those pics.

The problem is that items have a shorter tooltip limit than others (abilities, units..). The limit seems hardcoded, and is apparently something around 435 characters. The other ones are limited by the string limit, 1024. (well, 1023 + 1 null char)

I don't have the editor on this comp so here are some things to try:
(1) Shift click (lol) before editing. I doubt this works.
(2) Try using a tooltip tool like Risc's, maybe it will affect something. I doubt it myself but someone else recommended it in another thread.
(3) Try editing the war3map.wts file. If it cuts off your string in there, maybe you can manually edit it using a text editor and extend it.

GL hope something works.

 

[Sephalo]

I remember having this same problem. I'm not sure how Apheraz_Lucent got around it in those pics.

The problem is that items have a shorter tooltip limit than others (abilities, units..). The limit seems hardcoded, and is apparently something around 435 characters. The other ones are limited by the string limit, 1024. (well, 1023 + 1 null char)

I don't have the editor on this comp so here are some things to try:
(1) Shift click (lol) before editing. I doubt this works.
(2) Try using a tooltip tool like Risc's, maybe it will affect something. I doubt it myself but someone else recommended it in another thread.
(3) Try editing the war3map.wts file. If it cuts off your string in there, maybe you can manually edit it using a text editor and extend it.

GL hope something works.

Hmm damnit.
I already tried 1. And since I am using a tooltip tool, number 2 won't workout.
No idea how editing the war3map.wts file goes and if it's safe or anything.

I just wonder how rulerofiron99 got it to work.:O

 

[edo494]

well, it should work

img

 

[Sephalo]

How did you get that?

 

[edo494]

normally, copy pasted your text into item description. If you use JNGP try enabling no limits under grimore, it may help(if you dont have enabled)

 

[Sephalo]

normally, copy pasted your text into item description. If you use JNGP try enabling no limits under grimore, it may help(if you dont have enabled)

Well that's weird.
I also use no limits from grimoire and JNGP, but it still doesn't work.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try playing WarCraft III at a different resolution. The tooltip box might be resolution dependant.