Be able to duplicate a component WITH the connected links included

You can copy and paste any FF component, BUT the big problem is that you ONLY get a copy of the component itself and NOT all the links that are attached to it from previous components

So I am suggesting that it could be possible to duplicate a FF component and be able to optionally include all the links that this components has already available from the previous components (duplicate the links but not the previous components themselves as it happens now) and with the remapping values too if there are any

EXAMPLES

1- Simple example,
if you have a switch component with 10 components, and duplicate it, you ONLY get the switch component alone amd you have to connect again all the ten components, so it would be really good, useful and helpful if you could choose to copy also all the links that are attached to this component

2 - Complex example,
if you have a bomber component with many components and many controls attached to it with different remapper values then when you copy all the links are lost and all the controls and remappers and you have to loose much time to do it all again and it can take a long time to put all again and is much work

3 - there are sometimes that you may need to duplicate the same component 4 or 5 times, so is very boring and much work and time to repeat the linking of the duplicated component with all the previous component one by one again and again

ALREADY IS POSSIBLE TO DUPLICATE A WHOLE SUBTREE

This is not a workaround to be able to do what suggested above because it will duplicate also the all the components.

I am suggesting this above because I know is possible to do it because now is already possible to copy a whole subtree of components with all the links

So if you select a component and then right mouse click to open the menu and you choose the "Select Subtree" option then it will select ALL the previous components that are connected to this selected component with all the links, and then you can select "Copy" and when you paste it will paste a copy of all the selected components with the links

The big problem is that this can be a very big selection and you only want to have just only the selected components with only the links attached to this component and you can not delete the unwanted components because the these are different components than the ones you already have

So regrettably you can not use to duplicate because it also duplicates all the components and what you want is to use the components that you already have and is recommended and wise to use as few components as possible and reuse them when you can

So this is why I suggesting to be able to duplicate a component WITH the links already connected to the already available components without duplicating them

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Grimbly wrote: More options are always nice. Losing existing options in favor of new ones isn't. So, let us have both

I agree with you and of course that it would be needed that there is both options, and is in the same way that it is now that you can OPTIONALLY select the subtree of components and so you can just copy only the component or the whole subtree of components

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SpaceRay wrote: So I am suggesting that it could be possible to duplicate a FF component and be able to optionally include all the links that this components has already available

At start I have already told that it should be optionally as seen here

Should be implemented in FF12