Tooltips; What are they and why don't they work or do they?

[Yukiko]

I have POL 0.98 Core and Distro set-up and running. I have UOFeatureEnable set to 0x20. I have the megacliloc (tooltip) packethook package installed and enabled. I am using UO:ML with client version 6.0.9.2. I have tooltips enabled in the client options gump. I create a "townchest" which has a tooltip on it in the itemdesc.cfg file entry. I hover my mouse over the chest or I click on the chest. I even fiddle with the "Item Properties Display Mode" setting but I can't seem to figure out how to get that tooltip to display. So what am I doing wrong? Do tooltips actually work? If so how, pray tell, do I get them to show-up?

[Sadahar]

I'm not sure if the tooltip will display the "Tooltip" cfg entry of the item (maybe you have to script that), but if you have them enabled, every time you hover the mouse over an item the tooltip will display its default name.

Myabe you dont have the correct expansion enabled(ML)?

[Yukiko]

What good is it to display the name? I can always get that just by clicking on the item or enabling "follows Mouse" in "Item Properties Display Mode" client options gump. Why would there be a "Tooltip" member on items if it can't be displayed? I'm somewhat confused. I thought since the megacliloc packethook was under the "Tooltip" subject in custom scripts then it should display tooltips. Maybe I just don't get packethooks. It wouldn't be the first time something was over my head.

Let me explain what I want to do and maybe you can tell me if it's possible.

I hover the mouse over a weapon and a gump pops up showing the intrinsic properties of that weapon or atleast those properties I want it to show. That's what I had in mind when I started looking at tooltips. I know it isn't exactly a tooltip I am trying to do but I was hoping I could use the tooltip member to on which to store that kind of info.

[Yukiko]

Oh yes I even set my UOFeatureEnable to 0x1a0 to make sure I had all the proper flags enabled and that still didn't work.

[Turley]

You could check with eg SpyUO what exactly happens.
If your client is <5.0 the server should send 0xBF Sub 0x10 per object, and client answers with 0xBF Sub 0x10
if your client is >=5.0 the server sends 0xDC per object -> Client response with 0xD6
this is done by the core if you have set the correct flags.
After the client response the core sends 0xd6 packet with the text/clilocs (this is what you should hook)

[MuadDib]

the itemdesc.cfg tooltip options is for oldschool tooltips from 2.x clients. hehe

[Yukiko]

Thanks Turley. I will do some inspection there.

Maud, since what you say is the case I must have misunderstood the whole purpose tooltip hook.

I'll have to look at the hook script more closely.

[MuadDib]

yeah, go over the actual hook closely. I haven't done anything with it so can't say myself. But the Itemdesc entry, is for old tooltips in oldschool clients

[Yukiko]

Anybody know where I can get the latest clients.cfg file for SpyUO?

[Turley]

Take a look at the spyuo thread on runuo.
Which clientversion do you have, maybe its in my client.cfg?

[Yukiko]

6.0.9.2 ATM.

I'll revisit that thread. I didn't look through the entire postings there.

[Tomi]

4874efec: "6.0.9.2 2d" 41c610 5 2 435cd5 7 6

[Yukiko]

Thanks Tomi.