Addon Button to use an Item - Resolved

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So I just got into learning how to make addons as of yesterday, you know the day where I’m pretty changed a lot as a bunch of things broke on other addons.

Well as I’m learning I was trying to make a simple addon that adds a button that when I click on it, it will use Sea Scorpion (also other items once I get the basic stuff working).

I have the button showing up, it can be clicked, it’ll run a SetScript thing, but from what I can tell the way you make it actually use the item in your bag is via the following:

button:SetAttribute("type", "item")
button:SetAttribute("item", "Sea Scorpion")

However when I have that in my code, and click on the button, nothing more happens (no errors as well).
So I am just confused what I need to be doing, or if things are just broken due to Tuesday, or if I am just completely missing something.
Also if you want to help, but aren’t sure if I am missing something or not, just assume I am missing it.
(Also thank you, and hopefully this is an alright place to ask)

Also almost forgot to mention this in retail

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All the code for the button would help but a quick guess would be that you didn’t RegisterForClicks

button:RegisterForClicks("AnyUp")

or possibly

button:RegisterForClicks("AnyDown", "AnyUp")
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Many thanks that worked! I didn’t realize that was a thing, but makes sense now when I consider the SetScript specifics “OnClick” so it makes sense I’d have to add functionality to a button I am making.

Thank you! Now onto some more coding fun.