Keeping a toolbox sub-menus open after block selection

[Ben C]

Hi all

I've been poking around with the blockly toolbox menu recently, and I was wandering if there is a way for me to change one of the ways the toolboxs behaves. Here's a quick example:

When I select the 'logic' category it shows the sub menu of blocks as follows:

When click and move the 'if' block, the sub menu containing the other blocks disappears:

Is there a way to change how the 'logic' sub-menu behaves, so that it stays open until you click elsewhere in the workspace or select another category?  It would be nice to keep it open so that several blocks can be taken one after the other, without having to re-open the 'logic' category each time. 

Hopefully I've explained this in an understandable way.

Many thanks

Ben 

[Rachel Fenichel]

Hi Ben,

There isn't a way to do that with current configuraiton options, though you may be able to get it to work by hacking around in toolbox.js or flyout.js.

Cheers,

Rachel

[coldandtired]

I know it was a long time ago, but just in case anyone else is trying to do it you can do

workspace.toolbox_.flyout_.autoClose = false;

[jarw...@gmail.com]

In iOS, I find WorkbenchViewController.toolboxDrawerStaysOpen  is effective when you set it true .I wish it`s helpful
在 2017年1月30日星期一 UTC+8下午10:30:06，Ben C写道：

[Jessica Belicia Cahyono]

Hi!

I know it's been a while,  but I am facing the exactly same issue with the post above.

I tried using workspace.getFlyout().autoClose = false; to avoid the flyout auto-close after dragging the block into the workspace and it worked for a while. However, since a couple of weeks ago it does not seem to work anymore.

It would be appreciated if anyone knows a way to keep the categorical toolbox flyout open.

Many thanks,

Jessica

[Ben Henning]

Hi,

The Flyout class actually has a specific function for this purpose: Flyout.setAutoClose(). It should behave roughly the same as what you used above, Jessica, though it has a bit of extra logic at the time auto close is disabled.

You mention that it's no longer working. Has anything else changed since it stopped working? For example, did you upgrade to Blockly v12? We would expect this function to work as documented, so additional context on why it isn't would be helpful.

Regards,

Ben