Patch 7.0.3/API changes

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This article covers the cumulative AddOn UI Customization and Macro API changes from WoW 7.0.3 to 7.1.0 for Legion. See API change summaries for a list of API change summaries for all patches.
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Breaking Changes

• As of 7.1.0, the ScrollingMessageFrame:GetCurrentScroll has changed to ScrollingMessageFrame:GetScrollOffset
• Game generated ItemStrings no longer include the '0' place holders in the string parameter list between the ';' separators.
• Game generated ItemStrings for links have a minimum of 16 parameters.
• API GetItemInfo now returns the icon return value as a texture id, type number, instead of a specific path string. The number is still used in controls exactly the same way, and will load an icon without any alterations. Likewise icons are still loadable via the old path strings verbatim.
• The arguments of API QueryAuctionItems has changed. The order of arguments has changed, and filters has been merged into a filterData structure.

Changes

• As of Patch 7.0.3 the Heirloom color for _G["ITEM_QUALITY7_DESC"], ITEM_QUALITY_COLORS[7], or API GetItemQualityColor(7) has changed from Heirloom ffe6cc80 to Heirloom ff00ccff  

Important Notes

• For those still unaware, the Blizzard WoW AddOn Kit are no longer updated. See Interface AddOn Kit for notes on using the console to extract the files locally.

Blue Posts

• See also WoW Interface for beta UI API patch change discussion and discovery.