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Disabling block
It would be useful if blocks could be disabled or deactivated in the block editor. They would not be deleted, they would just appear differently. It would be similar to commenting lines of code in source code.
This is a really good idea, but is there something like this in the parent Google Blockly?
This is a really good idea, but is there something like this in the parent Google Blockly?
I quickly checked blockly 10.4.1. When you right click a block there's a "Disable" option in the context menu. So seems there's already something there. The difficulty will be to modify the transpiler to skip that block.
Indeed, I looked, there the blocks are switched off and they become translucent. @riknoll is it difficult to implement now?
@THEb0nny we already use the disabled feature; that's what happens to the blocks that are outside of an event handler. we just changed the visuals so that it was a little more visually distinct than just fading the blocks
@riknoll I'm interested in whether it's possible to disable a block without removing it from the algorithm with other blocks. In Blockly, right-clicking on a block opens a menu with an option to disable the block.
Would be a quite useful feature, to be more flexible and do quicker changes to the program.
Maybe the comment block proposal will be included in the development plans?