Max item tooltip length

[SAUS]

One thing I've been sort of struggling with for quite a while is the max item tooltip length. It seems to be the only tooltip that gets truncated and it only happens when a unit is carrying it and you mouse over it in their inventory. All other tooltips I have messed around with seem to work with any length I happen to use.

Is there any way around it or do I have to just word my item tooltips so that they fit? It gets really annoying if I want to describe a complicated effect lol.

 

[Arad MNK]

what are you exactly asking for?

 

[SAUS]

Sorry. I just want to know if there is some way to bypass the character limit or at least maybe what the character limit is. Do colour codes count towards the limit?

Thanks.

 

[Ezekiel12]

There is no known way for a normal map to extend the limit.
Color codes and all other command chars do count.

 

[Chaosy]

There are maps will REALLY huge ass tooltips with 4x color codes. You're doing it wrong if you somehow manage to hit the limit.

 

[SAUS]

It's only for items in the inventory. Every other tooltip works fine. Even the item tooltips in the shops work fine, but then a unit has it and it cuts off.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Item tooltips are pretty limited.

Remember that color codes or any other "invisible commands" do count into your tooltip length, so it might be a good idea to get rid of some color codes if you are starving for space.

You can also use the <...> expressions to access data fields in tooltips directly. I'm not sure if that allows to circumvent the max tooltip length.

 

[Chaosy]

The tooltips I was thinking of was from items from a shop so I guess that explains it.

Anyway using hex color codes rather than the default ones that Blizzard use is a few characters shorter. 3 if I recall.

 

[SAUS]

How do I use hex colour codes?

Thanks for the tips.

 

[Ezekiel12]

How do I use hex colour codes?

Read this.

Anyway using hex color codes rather than the default ones that Blizzard use is a few characters shorter. 3 if I recall.

Never heard of those "default ones", I know only one type of color codes. Could you make an example?

 

[SAUS]

Oh I know of those ones. Those are the default Blizzard ones. They're the ones I am using. I am wondering the same thing as you.

 

[Chaosy]

The following: |cffffcc00 |r is used by Blizzard to make a yellow color for abilities. The example is taken from the Slow ability.

So if you go to: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp and pick the color yellow you will get FFFF00.

So basically it's |cffffcc00 |r vs |FFFF00 |r

 

[SAUS]

So you can just remove
cff
out of
|cff000000|r
and it will work?

 

[Ezekiel12]

Not for me.

 

[Chaosy]

My bad. Apparently you need the c00 infront of a hex code. But even so you save a few characters.
|cffffcc00 |r
|c00FFFF00 |r

 

[SAUS]

Those are both 13 characters long (if you count the space as well).

 

[Chaosy]

Those are both 13 characters long (if you count the space as well).

Aye, I see that now. My theory was based on how it works on the forum.
Color 1
Color 2
[color=#ffcc00]Color 1[/color]
[color=#FFFF00]Color 2[/color]

However I did not know you could remove 3 characters from the one wc3 use as well, which makes makes it even no mater what sadly. So yeah, I was wrong at more than one point.