What does "group" do?

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Hello! I've gotten myself acquainted with most of the custom block input options, but I haven't found any documentation for the "group" option for variadic inputs. From the forum topics I've read, the numbers you type in correspond to the input types in the dialog. I'm guessing it's used to have repeating groups of inputs instead of just one variadic input, but I'm not quite sure.

What does it actually do...? Is it often useful?

Thank you once again! Sorry for flooding the forums with questions...

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That's correct, though the numbers don't exactly match their location in the dialog.

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Thank you!

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Yes, I believe it's their internal ID, why is why you can used cursed internal inputs not meant for custom blocks with group

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It's not exactly their internal id, since they're represented by letters or words. The numbers are just an abstraction jens made for metaprogramming. Plus, there are some inputs that don't have numbers.

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oh, I just remember seeing numbers that correspond to inputs when I modded snap

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Is there a way to add text in between the inputs but not each group?

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use expand

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That just puts text before the input. I need it to go between group items but not entire groups. Like BWAHAHAHA [] e (()::ring) [] e (()::ring) [] e (()::ring) @delInput@verticalEllipsis@addInput

Or actually, what would be more useful is text to go between groups but not items:
BWAHAHAHA [] (()::ring) e [] (()::ring) e [] (()::ring) @delInput@verticalEllipsis@addInput

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I don't think there's a better way to do this though than shown above ^.

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Could you please share what you typed?

Edit: Never mind! Thank you so much!! I got it to work with expand.

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drag the pic in the editor?

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