add toast type: Loot (Quest)

[killarny]

I think it would be quite nice to be able to show a toast whenever quest loot is picked up.

[ls-]

It's a bit tricky. There's no special event that handles quest items' acquisition, but the ones that are shown in our inventory are handled by CHAT_MSG_LOOT, that's the event I use for common loot toasts.

So I may add a checkbox to Loot (Common) dropdown menu, e.g., [ ] Quest, to spawn toasts for quest items regardless of set item quality threshold. Quest items often are common (white) quality items.

I'll prob work on it this weekend. I have no time to do it now.

[ls-]

Dunno, if you're still using this addon, but here's some news regarding this feature request.

There's no API I can use to add this feature that allows me to track all looted quest items, so I requested its addition, however, it won't be added until after 7.3 T_T

There's GetContainerItemQuestInfo that allows to get necessary info for quest items that are shown in your bags, but there's no function that can provide the same info and uses item link and/or IDs.

That's why I'm not adding this feature yet...

[killarny]

Thanks for keeping it on your radar! I've taken a break from the game lately, but I definitely will be using this addon when I start playing again, and it's nice to know that it's still under active development.

I wonder if, in the meanwhile until a proper API call is added to let you track these, maybe whatever addons such as XLoot are doing to track quest item pickups would work?

I haven't done really any development for WoW though, so I have no idea if this is helpful. Either way, thanks for the update!

[ls-]

I talked about stuff yesterday in IRC and kinda found a way to implement it now. Latest additions to WoW API are just poorly documented, had to ask Blizz dev for info on them :D

What's shown in this screenshot, grey "quest" text, is called item class and subclass, the only issue w/ them is that they aren't 100% reliable, not so rarely these two params store some bogus values.

Obviously, I didn't want to use just these two, I needed something else. So I'll be using item class + subclass and recently added item binding type (there's a special one for majority of quest items) to catch 99% of quest items. There's one more thing I asked to add, but it won't be added w/ 7.3 T_T It's pushed to either 7.3.5 or even later patch/expansion.

[ls-]

Done! 🎉