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blocks: prevent download when a block is incomplete

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by tracing how blocks are checked before the editor downloads a hex file, then reproduce the incomplete-block case shown in the issue. Done means a block missing a required docked input is detected and the broken hex file is not downloaded, with the resulting user-facing behavior covered as appropriate.

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Description

enhancement

In situations like the image below where a block that requires some other input doesn't have it:
image

...it would be kind to the user to stop them from downloading a broken hex file. (Broken in the sense that because the block is missing a required input, we know that the parser will fail to interpret the script)

Can we detect that a block is missing a required docked other block?

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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