#showtooltip?

[Kedash00]

I'm at work and always read these forums, but i am blocked to almost every site having anything to do with fun cept this one, anyways what exactly does the #showtooltip command do in a macro?

[Silly Gooooose]

It shows the tooltip for the skill.

I.E. On my warlock, I use this macro to help me condense spell, so they take up less space on my bars.

#showtooltip Fel Armor
/cast [button:1] Detect Invisibility
/cast [button:2] Undieing breath
/cast [button:3] Fel Armor

What this does is the spell icon, and the tool tip (that bit of info you see when you mouse over a icon) for fel armor. When I left click it, it casts detect invis. Right click casts undieing breath, and middle mouse click casts fel armor.

It also helps with cast sequence macros, which would change icons as you use them, and also not show any tool tip at all when you mouse over them. You can make it always show the first icon.

[bryanc]

Normally, the tooltip when you mouse over a macro will be just the name of the macro. #showtooltip makes it show the tooltip for the actual spell/item. The game will try to pick the best spell/item to show, and for many macros it will show what you want, and just a plain #showtooltip is all you need. You can force the game to use a specific spell/item by adding that after the #showtooltip. This also affects the icon and status (reagent counts, cooldowns, etc) on the button.

[Kedash00]

ah, nice, i'm gonna add that to all my macros, i've seen it used alot just never knew what it did. thanks guys