Getting the parameter variable names (i.e. input names) from a custom reporter

[cymplecy]

So, I'd like to be able to get the variable names for the parameters of a custom reporter

e.g. radius, bodyHeight and coneHeight in this example

but my Snap! foo has deserted me (again)

[cookieclickerer33]

Can you be more descriptive?

[cookieclickerer33]

You looking for this? @cymplecy

Block labels never change after creation (well unless you specifically use the blocks that change them) so I don’t see much of a use.
That’s why I think I might be wrong?

You have to explicitly ringify the “a”

[cymplecy]

I'm after getting the names of the parameters declared in the hat

I've got this

which has the parameters in the first row but that seems a strange place for them to end up at and I'm not too sure I can get at them programmatically as if I try a different custom reporter then the parameter names position moves

[cookieclickerer33]

Is that what you were looking for?
From the looks of it you should be able to exclude the first to list items and then that’s it

[cookieclickerer33]

@cymplecy this should work

[cymplecy]

If you look at the outputs of both reporters - you'll see that in 1st - parameters start at column D but in 2nd they start at column C

Which makes it tricky to decide where they start

[cymplecy]

Does that work for 1st example?

Because it has a text item in column B - so I think no

[cookieclickerer33]

Well you would do columns of

[cymplecy]

I think I've come up with a general solution

this

gives the number of parameters so I should be able to make a reporter to get the correct number of parameter names

[cookieclickerer33]

Question
Why call with inputs and not just put the block directly in?
Doesn’t that just make it more complicated?

[cymplecy]

The actual code uses a script to deliver the custom reporter and if f I don't use call I've found I just get information on the script and not the custom reporter itself

[cymplecy]

This is my current solution - a custom reporter to report the slot names of a custom reporter

and this is how I'm actually using it in my project as the custom reporter is reported via a script so needs a call wrapped around it

[cymplecy]

Relabelled and updated to handle simple custom reporters that only have a single reporter block in them

[luna.judah]

you also can just use codification

[cymplecy]

Could you post a script/custom block to do it that way?

[luna.judah]

[luna.judah]

oh wait, i was confused.
yeah, i had the same question in past, and i used that method with splitting custom block too.