Creating Tooltips using Object Editor Fields

[Kueken]

At least it helps for cooldown and stuff, which is usually still hard-coded for most spells. Also you can refer to eventually used dummy spells. So quite useful for Jass users also.

[LotK]

i got a thing you didnt mention

if you create new abilitys with base of others (and you probably do that :P) you sometimes have to add <AHtb,Dur1> (just exaple) to the tooltip
you gotta add the whole abilit name to it... it might be just like this <A07H:AHtb,Dur1>

if you mentioned that... i didnt notice :P if not you might add it as a warning

[maskedpoptart]

Anyone know how to use the hotkey field in a tooltip? <A000,Hotkey> just gives me 0. Since Hotkey is a character, is there a special syntax for converting its character value to a string (maybe something like <A000,Hotkey,'>)?

By the way, you should warn people that Upgrade data fields do not work. For example, if you directly edit the Shaman Adept Training (Rost), and try to use <Rost,base1> in a tooltip, it will use the original base1, not whatever you changed it to. Also, if you make a custom upgrade, i.e. R000, any data field you try to get from it will return 0 (<R000,base1> == 0, <R000,mod1> == 0, <R000,timebase> == 0).

[SanKakU]

Originally Posted by LotK

i got a thing you didnt mention

if you create new abilitys with base of others (and you probably do that :P) you sometimes have to add <AHtb,Dur1> (just exaple) to the tooltip
you gotta add the whole abilit name to it... it might be just like this <A07H:AHtb,Dur1>

if you mentioned that... i didnt notice :P if not you might add it as a warning

say WHAT? i didn't know that works...(are you sure doing that isn't bugged?)
didn't he tell you to put in A07H in place of the AHtb?
that's what i've been doing.

Originally Posted by maskedpoptart

Anyone know how to use the hotkey field in a tooltip? <A000,Hotkey> just gives me 0. Since Hotkey is a character, is there a special syntax for converting its character value to a string (maybe something like <A000,Hotkey,'>)?

yeah i ran into a similar problem. a lot of datafields give 0 instead of the actual value.
i'm not sure why or if there's anyway around it, but no one as far as i know has figured any way around it.

and about the other stuff...well i haven't looked at that so far.