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Problem on Digital Visual Interface

Resolved

When this template is used in Digital Visual Interface, it uses a number of the custom pin settings. These work fine, except custom pin C1, which uses this template's pin_custom1 (etc.) options:

 |pin_custom1_name=C1 
 |pin_name_custom1=Analog red
 |pin_custom1=

I can't see what's wrong - can someone who understands the template see if they can fix that article? -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 15:46, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On checking all users of this template, the same feature is used on the Apple Display Connector and DB13W3 articles, and they both also exhibit the problem. I'll update the example case in the infobox's page to include this functionality too. -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 16:39, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it. -- Finlay McWalter ☻ Talk 20:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Superseded/Superseded_by

I think that these tags are confusing and unclear. I would suggest that "Preceded by/Succeeded by" be used or alternatively "Preceded by/Superseded by". It may be easier to just add the single tag "Preceded by", then existing infoboxes using the "Superseded" tag should still work correctly, but allowing editors the option to use the clearer "Preceded by" tag in future edits . Bloodholds (talk) 04:32, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Parameter for communication protocol?

Some connectors are used with a specific communication protocol. For PS/2, the protocol is "serial, synchronous and bidirectional". Seems these four words might be appropriate before the data_signal information. Would a "protocol" parameter be acceptable in the template? Thanks, PeterEasthope (talk) 15:36, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not working as expected: Images are not embedded, but text

Consider the following wikimarkup (from DMX512):

{{Infobox connector
| name               = DMX Connector
| type               = [[lighting]] control
| image              = XLR5 pinouts.svg
| logo               = 
| caption            = XLR5 pinouts
}}

The image is not embedded to the infobox, but instead the text "XLR5 pinouts.svg" is displayed instead. It does not seem to be any different if prefixed with File:.

Template:Infobox software are working as expected.

Ping @Codename Lisa: 80.221.159.67 (talk) 01:26, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The {{Infobox software}} template allows bare filenames, whereas {{Infobox connector}} expects the full image syntax. When you have infobox-specific problems like this that are not covered by the template documentation, it's best to check another article with the same infobox to see how that does it, such as RCA connector. I've fixed it with this edit, but used 300px as advised near the top of {{Infobox connector}} rather than the 250px that RCA connector uses. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:11, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pitch

Please add "Pitch" to this infobox. I'm amazingly amazed the field is missing. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 18:50, 22 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with pinout section

The problem is that the section heading is rendered as "Pin out" when pinout is actually a single word. Can someone please fix this? Thanks! 1980fast (talk) 05:29, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

high_freq doesn't do anything

"high_freq" is listed as a parameter, but as far as I can tell, setting it to anything doesn't do anything. I notice every parameter other than "high_freq" has an associated "label#num fullname" and "data#num {{{parametername|}}}", so maybe someone needs to add that for "high_freq". Or just delete "high_freq" if it doesn't work. I don't want to do either of those out of fear I might break something.

My best guess is it is supposed to stands for "highest frequency" that the connector supports. Em3rgent0rdr (talk) 06:31, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]