C H A P T E R 4
Working with Game Events
This chapter is about event handlers and how to use them. An event handler is a function that is called by the game every time a specific event occurs. World of Warcraft provides a variety of events, ranging from clicks on UI elements to combat-related events. So what we need to do is tell the game that we are interested in an event and provide an event-handler function that should be called when the event occurs. Such a function is also called a callback function.
We will build three example mods in this chapter, the first of which will provide mouse-over tooltips for item, quest, and spell links in ...
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