Double-click to preview reporter
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Description
In Scratch you can double-click reporters to see what they would report:

Would be cool to see this in pxt too.
Developers should be allowed to specify some function that returns the string of their reporter, for example some of the reporters in minecraft don't have obvious textual representations:

Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by comparing PXT's reporter interaction with the described Scratch double-click behavior and review how Minecraft reporters are represented. Define the developer-provided string-returning hook and verify that double-clicking a reporter shows the expected value.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100