Get spell description via spell ID ?

[Deleted]

Hi,

is there a way to get the description of a spell from its ID ?

Example : 120 is the spell ID of Cone of cold. I would like to make a function like this :

function spellDescFromID(id)
    -- code
end

spellDescFromID(120) -- returns "Targets in a cone in front of the caster take 752 to 822 Frost damage and are slowed by 60% for 8 sec."

I feel like the solution is within the GameTooltip methods but I don't see it. Can you help me ?

[Mordret]

There is function: GetSpellDescription but it is undocumented sadly.

[Deleted]

That was just the thing I needed, thanks a lot. I did not see that in wowpedia.org, maybe I should check more often what's in wowprogramming. Or maybe I had some brain latency and misread it earlier... Thank you

[Deleted]

Yeah, you have to tooltip parse. I did it a few times.
Let me dig out my code.

---------- Post added 2011-07-04 at 04:06 PM ----------

local scanTip = CreateFrame("GameTooltip", "CBMTSpellLoggerSpellScanTooltip", UIParent, "GameTooltipTemplate")
local scanLine
local function GetSpellTooltipText(spellID)
	scanTip:SetOwner(UIParent, "ANCHOR_NONE")
	scanTip:SetSpellByID(spellID)
	scanLine = CBMTSpellLoggerSpellScanTooltipTextLeft3
	local t = scanLine:GetText()
	if (not t) then return end
	if (t == SPELL_CAST_TIME_INSTANT_NO_MANA) or (t:find(SPELL_CAST_TIME_SEC:gsub("%%%.3g", "%d+"))) then
		scanLine = CBMTSpellLoggerSpellScanTooltipTextLeft4
	end
	local r=scanLine:GetText():match("[ ]*(.+)")
	scanTip:Hide()
	return r
end

You can adapt it easily I guess.

[Taryble]

Apparently, GetSpellDescription() doesn't return the numerical values - or at least, it returned variables in your screenshot, Iphi.

[Deleted]

Apparently, GetSpellDescription() doesn't return the numerical values - or at least, it returned variables in your screenshot, Iphi.

yes :/

I'm Glad you posted this Treeston ! Thanks.