Unable to add inputs/outputs to custom blocks

Bug Reports
1

On the beta site I’m unable to add inputs/outputs to custom blocks on mobile. It will let me enter text into the fields, but when I switch to a different block to try and use the parameters, they disappear. The banner text is working fine, however.

2

Can you try pressing the comma or enter key to add it to the list and see if that works?

3

Yeah, it just adds a comma or line break

4

It also looks like I can’t insert an output variable

Edit: perhaps this was just a visual glitch, it seems to work now that I added one from non beta site.

5

This is still broken btw

6

i havent tried it on mobile, but it works fine for me on pc

7

Yeah, only works on desktop on think

8

i see it now, it tries to go to the other box when i click enter

9

i remember this was an issue on the old site too before i reported it lol

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10

There’s a planned redesign for inputs and outputs of custom blocks alongside the custom block default values feature.

It should be ready tomorrow, but regardless of when exactly that update comes out, there probably won’t be a fix for this until that happens.

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11

didnt know there was gonna be a default values feature lol

12

I had another idea: We can set input types on the custom blocks. It’d be useful for the library especially. Some types I came up with are: ___ ID (just numbers that are in the right range), True/False, Number (we could set min/max), Text, (we could set char limits), and databases/database columns.

13

Inventor doesn’t really have types like that, but I’ve considered allowing custom block creators to configure dropdown options.

14

That would work. I’m thinking about this for a custom block that would work with databases, specifically modifying statistics which are stored in a DB. I’d want to have some way to make sure only that DB’s columns could be selected, and I also wouldn’t want to have to remember all of the column names.