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-rw-r--r--doc/lua_api.txt4
-rw-r--r--src/guiFormSpecMenu.cpp7
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lua_api.txt b/doc/lua_api.txt
index 2f5e3706c..dd20ae904 100644
--- a/doc/lua_api.txt
+++ b/doc/lua_api.txt
@@ -1473,6 +1473,10 @@ Item stacks can store metadata too. See `ItemStackMetaRef`.
Item metadata only contains a key-value store.
+Some of the values in the key-value store are handled specially:
+
+* `description`: Set the itemstack's description. Defaults to idef.description
+
Example stuff:
local meta = stack:get_meta()
diff --git a/src/guiFormSpecMenu.cpp b/src/guiFormSpecMenu.cpp
index 45b0e9c11..67b3a9ad0 100644
--- a/src/guiFormSpecMenu.cpp
+++ b/src/guiFormSpecMenu.cpp
@@ -2303,7 +2303,12 @@ void GUIFormSpecMenu::drawList(const ListDrawSpec &s, int phase,
// Draw tooltip
std::wstring tooltip_text = L"";
if (hovering && !m_selected_item) {
- tooltip_text = utf8_to_wide(item.getDefinition(m_client->idef()).description);
+ const std::string &desc = item.metadata.getString("description");
+ if (desc.empty())
+ tooltip_text =
+ utf8_to_wide(item.getDefinition(m_client->idef()).description);
+ else
+ tooltip_text = utf8_to_wide(desc);
}
if (tooltip_text != L"") {
std::vector<std::wstring> tt_rows = str_split(tooltip_text, L'\n');