Wiley-World.of.Warcraft.Programming.A.Guide.and.Reference.for.Creating.WoW.Addons

552 Part IV ■ Referenceitemdata —Encoded data field interpreted by the client to show the character’s listof known trade skill recipes.Examples: |cffa335ee|Hitem:45457:3828:3395:3395:0:0:0:0:80|h[Staffof Endless Winter]|h|r, |cff1eff00|Hitem:36360:0:0:0:0:0:-37:1633878093:80|h[Frostpaw Legguards]|h|rRepresents an item. Clicking an item link in the default UI shows a tooltipwith information about the item. Control-clicking an equippable item opens theDressUpFrame to preview how the item would look on the player character ifequipped. The linkdata for an item link follows the format itemID:enchant:gem1:gem2:gem3:gem4:suffixID:uniqueID:level:itemID—The item’s itemID.enchant (optional)—Unique identifier of the enchantment applied to the item;not used elsewhere in the API.gem1, gem2, gem3, gem4 (optional)—Unique identifiers of the enchantmentsprovided by gems socketed in the item (not the itemIDs of the gems themselves);not used elsewhere in the API.suffixID (optional)—Identifies the specific variation represented forrandom-property items (e.g. ‘‘... of the Monkey’’, ‘‘... of Frost Protection’’, etc.).A positive number indicates a variation with specific stat values (e.g. 1200 = ‘‘ofthe Bear’’, 8 stamina 8 strength; 1220 = ‘‘of the Bear’’, 14 stamina 15 strength);a negative number indicates a type of variation, with actual stat values to bedetermined by decoding the uniqueID.uniqueID (optional)—A number used internally by the WoW client/serverarchitecture to track a specific occurrence of an item: used for crafted items whichdisplay ‘‘’’ in their tooltips and for random-property items. Foritems with a negative suffixID,usingbit.band(uniqueID, 0xFFFF) revealsthe factor used to calculate the item’s stats.level—Level of the character linking the item; used for ‘‘Heirloom’’ items whosestats change based on the level of the character equipping them.inventoryIDAn inventoryID identifies an inventory slot used (mostly) for the equipping of items.Inventory ID numbers exist not only for the armor and weapon slots seen in the defaultUI’s character window, but also for bag slots, bank bag slots, the contents of the bank’smain storage area, and the contents of the keyring. Inventory slots are not definedas constants in the default UI; to obtain the inventoryID for a slot, use one of thefollowing functions:GetInventorySlotInfoBankButtonIDToInvSlotIDContainerIDToInventoryIDKeyRingButtonIDToInvSlotID