Would it be possible to add a feature where you could press a hotkey to freeze the preview UI then hover over items in the preview UI to see the item's usual hover UI (such as item name, enchantments, lore., etc)?

Using a scroll wheel as a way to highlight an item in preview might also be a good alternative to freezing UI and point at it.

It's finally ready to go! In the next releases for 1.20 and 1.19.4, you will be able to lock the tooltip using a key (left control by default) and hover inner items in the preview.

I'm probably not going past 1.19.3 so I'm hoping I can build it for that, but looks great. Glad you could implement it 👍

The feature is available for 1.19.4!

+1 for this. I'd try to implement it myself but I can't open the project in IDEA without gradle getting upset it cant find loom so..

considering the preview will be located inside the item's tooltip starting with Minecraft 1.17.

Maybe add an option to not have this? I much prefer the way it is at the moment...

The vanilla-style placement is the new default in 1.17, but there will be a setting in the config to revert it back to the way it is before 1.17

Well either way, even if it does look messy how would one go about creating this? I've tried cloning the repo and opening it in IDEA but like I said gradle can't find loom

Could not find [email protected]_16_5.1.16.5+build.4-v2.jar (io.github.cottonmc:Jankson-Fabric:[email protected]_16_5.1.16.5+build.4-v2).
Searched in the following locations:
    file:/C:/Users/Kyle/.gradle/caches/fabric-loom/20w51a-mapped-net.fabricmc.yarn-20w51a+build.5-v2/[email protected]_16_5.1.16.5+build.4-v2.jar
    file:/C:/Users/Kyle/.gradle/caches/fabric-loom/20w51a-mapped-net.fabricmc.yarn-20w51a+build.5-v2/Jankson-Fabric.jar

Normally I'd expect it to fetch it and be fine..

Unfortunately no luck in which case I will just have to +1 this request regardless of how "messy" it may be, it's a feature people will probably like nonetheless.

I don't know about setting up the project in IDEA, but it looks like a cache issue.
Try running .\gradlew.bat cleanLoomMappings cleanLoomBinaries maybe ?

While it would be possible, I think it would look pretty messy, considering the preview will be located inside the item's tooltip starting with Minecraft 1.17.

ah well the server I play on will probably be stuck on 1.16 for the next two years so..