[CATA] Can't shift click spells from spell book

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Shift Clicking a spell in the spell book does not create a CHATLINK.

I pulled the interface code from the console command and inspected the SpellBookFrame.xml, and there isn’t a Modifier check in the OnClick event in the CheckButton “SpellButtonTemplate”. The vanilla version of the spell book has the Modifier check in the xml. I also don’t see a modifier check in the OnClick Spell Button mixin.

Might be a quick fix to just throw in the IsModifiedClick check in either the xml or the mixin

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Yup, I’m having the same issue trying to create macros.

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+1 on the issue. Please fix. OP already provides one potential solution.

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A similar issue, you can link abilities from the dungeon journal but the links cannot be clicked to expand.

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Literally does the dev work and provides the fix for them and still broken weeks later. Lol.

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I’ve made an addon to address this shiftclick issue. For some reason i can’t post links so go to CurseForge search DragLink. Adds Drag & Drop macro creation/Insertion and so much more.

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Thanks for this! 4 Months later still not fixed lol

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I’m experiencing same problem when I shift click into my CHAT; it casts the spell.

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Did anyone find a fix for this? I’m having the same issue - I also can’t link spells into macro text.

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as far as im aware, this has not been implemented in the standard client. There may exist an addon for it by now, but I havent looked into it.

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Still broken lol

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Cata client still has this broken, 26th March 2025. Unreal lol

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Still broken as of 13th April 2025

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Still brokie

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Cut them some slack guys, you have to understand that this would take 30 seconds to fix, so its very reasonable for it to still be broken after a year, because this is a small indie dev company ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Same for the Deathmist Mask still using the Dreadmist Mask model, changing an item id in a database so the correct model is displayed, i mean were talking years to fix this stuff of this magnitude.