A way to disable editing on statement inputs

[Francisco]

Hi all,

I'd like to know if it's possible to disable editing on a specific input in a block, instead of disabling the block whole using this.setEditable(false)

const input = this.appendStatementInput('DEF')

input.appendField('function')

input.connection?.setShadowState({

  type: 'function_call' // preview of the block (similar to mit's scratch!)

})

The purpose here of the non-editable statement input is that it only holds a shadow-state of the function call preview, similar to how it's done in mit's scratch:



and use the next statements below the block as the actual function body :D

[Aaron Dodson]

Hi,

To double check, your goal here is to prevent the shadow call block ("block name (number or text) <boolean> label text") from being replaced by another block without disabling the "define" block? If so, I think the easiest way to enforce that would be to use the connection checker mechanism. The shadow call block's definition would need to call this.previousConnection.setCheck('shadowdef'), and in turn the define block's definition should call this.inputList[0].setCheck('shadowdef'). That will enforce that only shadow call blocks are allowed to connect to the statement input in the define block. 

If I'm misunderstanding the question or you run into any issues with that, please let me know!

- Aaron