Scope-based visual-programming mechanism

Abstract

A visual-programming tool provides an encapsulation mechanism configured to operate as a discrete section of a graph corresponding to a program in a visual-programming language. The encapsulation mechanism is configured to bind control flow of the visual-programming language to the encapsulation mechanism, determine logic associated with an encapsulated section of the graph, determine input and/or output associated with the encapsulated section, and present a visual representation of the encapsulation mechanism encompassing a visual representation of the input and/or output and logic in a graphical-user interface associated with the visual-programming tool. In some examples, the visual-programming tool can automatically position nodes associated with the encapsulation mechanism in the graphical-user interface.

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