Setting color slots, please?

[codingisfun2831t]

To quote other posts that never got answered:

@c0der0928

I realized you can’t use on color inputs, even though it should work because you should be able to set it to a
I am sorry if this is already suggested but it never said anything similar

@sathvikrias

This request is probably more simple than a few others, although I do realize it may not exactly be trivial. Because v11 added and , would it be possible to add the functionality of to be used with colors and rings? I needed this for my upcoming Chess project and got reminded of this when trying to make, and then give feedback on, help screens. I know v11.1 v12 is about playable help screens (tutorials), so I would also use this to make my old blocks be able to restrict blocks that do not make sense so that the help screens do make sense. Thanks in advance!

Can this please be added soon? (and rings, probably also, but that might be harder)

[codingisfun2831t]

Should also be easier to implement. Look at threads.js:

Process.prototype.doSetSlot = function(name, value) {
    var sym = Symbol.for('block'),
        frame, block, slot, subslots;
    if (!name) {return; }
    frame = this.context.variables.silentFind(sym);
    if (!frame) {return; }
    block = frame.getVar(sym);
    if (block.isCustomBlock) {
        slot = block.inputSlotNamed(name);
        if (slot instanceof InputSlotMorph) {
            slot.setContents(value.toString());
        } else if (slot instanceof BooleanSlotMorph) {
            slot.setContents(value);
        } else if (slot instanceof MultiArgMorph) {
            if (!(value instanceof List)) {
                value = new List([value]);
            }
            slot.expandTo(value.length());
            subslots = slot.inputs();
            value.itemsArray().forEach((item, i) => {
                if (subslots[i] instanceof InputSlotMorph) {
                    subslots[i].setContents(
                        isNil(item) ? '' : item.toString()
                    );
                } else if (subslots[i] instanceof BooleanSlotMorph) {
                    subslots[i].setContents(item);
                }
            });
        }
    }
};

All you really need to do for colors is to duplicate the BooleanSlotMorph (as you would be calling this function with a color, anyway) and make it a ColorSlotMorph, and of course updating the name menu to notice this.

[sathvikrias]

you can use a variadic input in the meantime, it works well.

[jens]

does this help?

[sathvikrias]

they meant unblocking set slot [ V] to [] and when slot [ V] signals [ V]

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

But this doesn’t work

[codingisfun2831t]

Wait… then I can use that for one blocks! Still, a color input should be allowed!

[sathvikrias]

For colors specifically, you can’t use normal set slot for variadic color slots since it will only set the slot to the color; use this modified block: