User talk:Evil Greven/Template:Comprehensive Skill Box

Um, you might've missed hte part about new skill boxes should also work with Quick Reference Lists... -PanSola 04:37, 3 March 2006 (CST)


 * I'm just experimenting with it right now. Don't worry about me trying to add it into any of the pages anytime soon. edit: trying to see if there's a way to keep the older-style format but allow the Quick Reference thing. - Evil_Greven 04:42, 3 March 2006
 * It's possible, but would require noinclude and includeonly tags so convoluted (and cannot be part of the template) that really would scare off the average users. What you do is use the "noinclude" tag to specify formatting within the article, and "includeonly" tag to specify formatting for the quick reference page, and keep the actual data (skill icon, skill name, recharge time, description etc) outside of the tags.
 * The tags cannot go in templates because, well, templates work like includes, so by calling the template you would already see things that would be "include-only" in the article, and wouldn't see things you put inside "noinclude" in the template. -PanSola 06:05, 3 March 2006 (CST)
 * Yeah, I kinda found that out. Check out User:Evil Greven/Skill Box, and it's not entirely all fixed up. Ah well, it was a thought. - Evil_Greven 06:37, 3 March 2006
 * I went ahead and worked on it a bit more, and now I've got the Sill Box and the reverence list templates in the exact same format. Do you think it's possible to modify the templates to make use of the  and   ?  Ranith said to ask one of the regulars, and you're damn good with template formats. - Evil_Greven 14:22, 3 March 2006
 * I've tried before, and I couldn't get it to work. I forgot what methods I had tried, but the ideas I tried and failed (incluidng combo with nowiki) were enough to convince me putting noinclude/includonly tags in templates isn't useful for the articles.  Heck, I don't even remember when I tried the ideas.  There might have been things that I have missed.  And real templates might behave slightly differently than user space includes.  I'm going out of town for the weekend, will re-experiment with nowiki tags on Sunday. -PanSola 01:46, 4 March 2006 (CST)