Live Modify Tool

[michael-hawker]

Feature Background

Status: Experimental
Tracking Issue: #11

Day12LiveModify.mp4

The Live Modify tool is found in the Quick Access Toolbar #38, it is the wrench icon within the Segmented control. After selecting the wrench, all the visual elements within your document will be highlighted within the XAML preview pane. You can then click on it to modify it live.

Currently, only a TextBlock's Text is supported, as seen above in the video.

This is an experimental WIP, so feedback is much welcome.

Technical Info

If you're looking to help improve the functionality of editors here, the code for the modify tool can be found in the XamlStudio project's Document.Design.xaml.cs file.

Work first needs to be done to finish the migration to the WCT Labs Adorner package, see PR #42.

From there, specific adorners based on the type of selected element can be created and added to the _editorAdornerTypeMap dictionary in the Document.Design.xaml.cs file.

Further work on how the workflow of these editors should behave amongst the other tools needs to be discussed.

Feedback

Known Issues: #11

Let us know how you feel about the ability to quickly modify key properties visually like this to update your XAML code. Is this useful? What types of editors and properties would you like to be able to modify like this?