Before patch 3.02 i had alot of addons and when most of them stopped working i had to start a fresh set. Sadly some of the addons i really like were not updated.Due to the fact that i had so many im really not sure which one did what i want, but it could have been guildads, book of crafts or recipebook.

basically what it did was this:

when you hover over an item, linen cloth for example, it would show which of your alts used that in a recipe in the tooltip and it would be coloured orange yellow green and grey for its skillup.

eg for linen cloth:

alt1 talioring

alt 2 engineering

alt1 first aid

alt 2 first aid

does anyone know of an addon that does this and works in 3.02+?

I believe it is 'Altoholic'.  I use it.  Does exactly what you wrote.

thanks ill give it a try :)

hmm ive been through all the options etc and i cant get it to do this. It just shows how many of that item that i have in alts inventories. Its a good addon though :P does anyone know any other addons that show what alts can use an item for profession?

Altoholic does not add info to your tooltip. It is though, just about the best alt tracker availabe right now. I do recall such an addon and the name escapes me right now. It is probably one of the multitude of tradeskill addons that are currently not working correctly (How I miss my TradeSkillInfo)

it was book of crafts and has been broken since 3.0.

I think Mendeleev can tell you that info in a tooltip. I use it, but mind you it also display ALL recipes in its database that can use that mat, not just recipes one of your characters know.