Create: Improved Display Link Experience (C: IDLX) is a little Quality-of-Life add-on for Create mod aimed at sprucing up some of Display Link features, mainly the underrated Attached Label option.
The way Create mod currently handles displaying information (aka data) with the attached label is by simply concatenating them with a space: It's a simple way, but thus a severely limiting one in terms of customization.
This add-on pushes the boundaries apart by introducing the $ and {} placeholders (aka specifiers).
Placing one (or more) marks the place where the information string should be inserted.
In short, the Attached Label can now act like a formatted string!
You can utilize as many placeholders as you want in one string. Mixing both types of them doesn't cause any issues as well!
If you need to insert a $ character literally (same applies to {}), without it turning into a placeholder, use backslash-escaping on it.
In case of no unescaped placeholders present in the label altogether, default (base Create's) concatenation will be applied.
Lastly, there's a new hover-on button that displays all the abovementioned.
Its last string displays which placeholders are active (available to use in this world/server, which is specified by the server config of the mod).
(A .webp version if the one above doesn't play properly)
C: IDLX has a proper Create-styled config for both the client (visuals) and the server (per-world).
Enable Guide Buttons: toggling that off will hide the abovementioned hover-on button in the Display Link interface.
Enable (Dollar Sign / Curly Brackets) Placeholder: with those two it is possible to limit the placeholder functionality to only one option - the Dollar Sign or the Curly Brackets respectively - or disable the feature altogether by ticking both as off (affects the last string of the Placeholders Usage Guide tooltip);Hide Escaping Of Disabled Placeholders: by default, when a disabled placeholder is escaped, the backslash stays visible as if placed before a regular character; enable to make it get hidden like if it did its job.
- @LIUKRAST and @serverside-swzo for valuable Mixin advices at the early stage of C: IDLX development;
- GG_Gnom (
gg_gnomon Discord) for testing the mod (literally the only case of testing this mod I know).
- Devin's Badges for most badges used in this README;
- @flikrheist for the NeoForge badge specifically;
- FOR THE BADGE for the "Available For: 1.21.1" and "License: MIT" badges.