EAE Block Fork - Hybrid Manual/Automated Workflow

Fork function blocks from Schneider Electric standard libraries into your custom library using a hybrid approach that combines the best of manual and automated workflows.

v7.2 ENHANCED - Production-Ready Reliability:

• Manual fork in EAE GUI → Perfect HMI files (generated by EAE's designer)
• Automated finalization → Single-command execution updates ALL references
  • ✅ Root namespace updates
  • ✅ Cross-block references (FB/SubCAT in .fbt files)
  • ✅ HMI cross-references (fully qualified types in Designer.cs)
  • ✅ GUID generation + Registration
  • ✅ Transactional rollback - Automatic recovery from failures (v7.1)
  • ✅ UTF-8 encoding - Works on international Windows systems (v7.1)
  • 🆕 Pre-fork validation - Catches errors before manual fork in GUI (v7.2)
  • 🆕 Better error messages - Contextual help with recovery suggestions (v7.2)
  • 🆕 Resume capability - Gracefully handles interrupted forks (v7.2)
  • 🆕 Dependency auto-detection - Automatically suggests all SubCATs to fork (v7.2)