User talk:Lin Chiao Feng

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I guess this template doesn't sign itself... ^_- --Lin Chiao Feng 17:29, 5 April 2007 (PDT)

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Admit it. You got pwnd. (-: --GuyPerfect 19:34, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

I was just playing the tank, taunting as needed. Glad to see it worked. ^_- --Lin Chiao Feng 21:02, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

DPL in templates

I updated Template:SalvageUsedList with the syntax you need for DPL in templates. There's four steps to convert a "normal" DPL call to a "template" DPL call:

1. Replace <DPL> with {{#dpl:
2. Replace any pipe | characters with {{!}}
3. Put a pipe | in between each argument (where you would normally have to put line breaks)
4. Replace </DPL> with }}

The template DPL call can also be helpful directly within articles. For instance, the normal DPL breaks tables of contents when its results include headings -- but the template DPL calls work just fine. (There's examples of both versions in Invention Salvage's history.) -- Sekoia 11:13, 28 May 2007 (EDT)

You rock, Sekoia. --Lin Chiao Feng 11:28, 28 May 2007 (EDT)

Templates with Variable Length

I notice you created a template containing a bunch of IF statements that adjusts its length depending on content. This page uses 4 different templates to do the same thing. Can you show me how to combine my 4 templates into one like you did?--GreyDog 17:35, 8 June 2007 (EDT)

Better yet, I've got it set so now the invention set pages are nothing but templates. So it'll be cake to change formatting later, if desired.

But anyway, what you're asking isn't exactly easy, but it's still doable. The main key is the #if: directive. Its format is {{#if: something-or-nothing | if-something | if-nothing}}. The trick is putting {{{ param-name |}}} in for something-or-nothing, which turns it into: {{#if: {{{ param-name |}}} | param-is-set | param-is-empty}}. Then you can have a block of text appear or disappear depending on the presence or absence of a parameter. You won't need to do this for Recipe 1 and Recipe 2, but you would want it for Recipe 3 through Recipe 6. The last thing you'll need to do is arrange the closing braces right so a two-item list doesn't add four blank lines after it.

That all said, the set bonuses stuff is duplicating what is on the set pages themselves, and if I knew DPL (Dynamic Page Listings or somesuch) better, I could show you how to use it to fetch set bonus info (and maybe even enhancement lists) right off the sets' pages. But that's a bit over my head at the moment; maybe next week. Or you can beg Sekoia to figure it out. ^_^; --Lin Chiao Feng 17:52, 8 June 2007 (EDT)

ISalvage.dpl

Do you know whether {{ISalvage.dpl}} is being used anywhere? I have it on my "list of things to clean up", but I notice you made edits to it most recently. Is it something to keep or retire? -- Sekoia 19:23, 31 August 2007 (EDT)