creating custom components

[MobyPurvy]

Finally figured out that I could create my own custom components in the component factory. (I vaguely suspected I could because of the presence of custom components, but never quite connected the examples + explanations in the flow of challenges to the steps I would have to do open the component factory and create my own).

Developer - might want to rework that scaffolding to make it a little bit more explicit.

Also, a suggestion -- refactoring! Would be _great_ if I could select a bunch of components on screen, create a custom component out of them, and have it preserve all wires (leaving wires to unselected components hanging).

[MobyPurvy]

just for fun, I dug into the files on disk and tried copying one of my architecture circuits into a coustom component folder to see if I can trick it into letting my start with an architecture and slice away to refactor out a portion of it. The App wouldn't even start until I removed the file again :)

[uNiels 💗]

* There are some components that aren't allowed in Custom Components (such as the Program component).
* Also, all Input and Output pins must be on distinct "squares" (which are marked visually in the background in the Component Factory).
* And first and foremost, other custom components cannot be used in Custom Components, which is probably what broke your game, as your architecture likely had some custom components.

Those are restrictions from the top of my head that an architecture can violate.

[Stuffe]

Originally posted by MobyPurvy:

Finally figured out that I could create my own custom components in the component factory. (I vaguely suspected I could because of the presence of custom components, but never quite connected the examples + explanations in the flow of challenges to the steps I would have to do open the component factory and create my own).

Developer - might want to rework that scaffolding to make it a little bit more explicit.

Also, a suggestion -- refactoring! Would be _great_ if I could select a bunch of components on screen, create a custom component out of them, and have it preserve all wires (leaving wires to unselected components hanging).

You can do this with copy paste! I know I should add buttons to make this feature more visible