microsoft / microsoft/pxt

Double-click to preview reporter

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Description

In Scratch you can double-click reporters to see what they would report:

screenshot 2018-12-13 at 03 01 36

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:

screenshot 2018-12-13 at 03 03 21

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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

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