Prevent inputs being captured in regions

[tobyk]

I originally reported this as a bug a while ago

No error on inputs erroneously captured in IF regions

Maybe not a bug, more of a minor UI feature request You can’t create an input pin inside an IF region But if you have some patching and you marquee select it and then use Surround>IF you can indeed end up with an input pin inside the IF region. This can occasionally happen by accident if you are putting a large quantity of nodes into an IF region. In this case nodes won’t execute (or won’t return results at least) but there is no error which would make it easy to identify this problem. on Be…

But I come at it from a new angle this time.

Feature request:
That input pins are always on the canvas and cannot be included in regions.

Problem:
If you accidentally capture an input pin in a region (via surround tool, copy and paste or ctrl drag) then they no longer work and give an unspecifc warning ‘a pin with this name is not allowed in this patch’

As input pins always describe an input from the canvas context there is no reason for them to ever be in a region (Unless this is part of upcoming functionality?)