The creator asked why the Stream Alerts "Display" drop-down was not in the same
style as the other drop-downs. It was never given the theme's YtComboBox style -
only a hand-painted Background/Foreground. Setting colours changes the paint, not
the template, so WPF still drew the light system ComboBox (grey border, system
arrow, white popup list) on top of the dark panel. The chat Font drop-down was a
copy of the same mistake, and every check box was the light system one.
The sweep of the whole properties panel (then the app):
- ComboBox x2 (chat Font, alert Display) -> YtComboBox, hand-painted colours gone
- TextBox x16 in the properties panel -> YtTextBoxCompact (new, BasedOn YtTextBox:
11px / padding 4,2 - the panel is dense, the full 13px box would double it)
- CheckBox x2 (chat) + x3 (preview broadcast) + x1 (socials dialog) -> YtCheckBox
(new: a 14x14 rounded box + tick path, accent fill when checked)
- the layer-rename field -> YtTextBoxCompact via BasedOn, still borderless
- buttons, pills, sliders: already themed, untouched
The sweep also killed a typo'd foreground (#e0d0e0 for #e0e0e0) and the only
remaining hand-painted colour is the deliberate dimming of the two read-only path
fields.
Guard: ytLive.Tests/PropertiesStyleTests.cs (the ONE Good Dog test) parses the app
XAML and fails if an unstyled drop-down, check box or properties field comes back.
431/431 green, 0 warnings.
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# Controls — index
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The phase-2 carved pieces of what used to be one monolithic `MainWindow.xaml`
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(1,681 lines → a 123-line shell). Each is a `UserControl` in the `ytLive.Controls`
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namespace, extracted one roll-back commit at a time (refactor-commit-12..18).
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See [`schema.md`](../schema.md) for the memory-map conventions.
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| File | Purpose |
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|------|---------|
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| `BottomBar.xaml(.cs)` | Footer (Row 3): stream stats (bitrate/fps/dropped/duration/health), resolution dropdown (gear menu moved up to TopBar 2026-09-22) |
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| `HealthBanner.xaml(.cs)` | Row 1 status banner + the 7 value→visibility converters live in the app theme, not here |
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| `TopBar.xaml(.cs)` | Row 0 session surface (2026-09-22 redesign): brand + gear menu (left), one segmented REC|ON-AIR mode switch + world actions (Record: Start Recording · Stream: Go Live + Test) + reality line while running (dot/word/elapsed) + End (center), account zone — Sign In or avatar w/ Change Account/Logout context menu (right). `RefreshAvatar()`, `GearButton_Click` |
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| `PreviewPane.xaml(.cs)` | Row 1 Col 1 center: the 1920×1080 `OverlayCanvas`/`SelectionOverlay`/`BrandFlashLayer`/`SocialBarElement`, text pull-out drawer, and the live-controls row (TRAX / game / mic meters + sliders + speakers + socials). **TASK 57:** dragging a webcam under the vertical tier routes through `MainViewModel.MoveWebcamInVerticalTier` (the six-spot snap inside the cropped band) instead of free-floating over the master, and a resize re-snaps the tile onto its spot (TASK 57 Unit 2: the resize routes through `MainViewModel.ResizeWebcamInVerticalTier` — the Chat camera's two sizes, then the snap) |
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| `SceneThumbnailStrip.xaml(.cs)` | Row 0 scene-picker strip (`ItemsControl` over `Scenes`), staged-red / live-green border highlight |
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| `LeftPanel.xaml(.cs)` | Row 1 Col 0 left panel: edit mode → layers+properties; live → YouTube chat. Source add/edit/remove, list drag-to-reorder, snapshot revert-accept. **TASK 51:** the webcam properties carry the Background section — `RemoveBackgroundPill` / `BlurBackgroundPill` (`PillToggle`, radio-exclusive via `WebcamSceneConfig.RemoveBackground`/`BlurBackground`) + `BackgroundStrengthSlider` (0..1, 5% snaps, shown only while an effect is on). **TASK 57:** the webcam properties carry a Geometry section (X/Y/W/H) — manual placement of the camera, bound to the **live** placement (the one the current tier shows), gated on `IsWebcamSelected` (not `SelectedElement.IsWebcam` — the TASK 51 test finds that panel by binding text and would match twice); the Shape button's `Visibility` is bound to `CanToggleClipShape`, so the circle option is NOT OFFERED in the vertical Chat layout. **TASK 58:** every drop-down, check box and field in the properties panel carries the theme's style (`YtComboBox`/`YtCheckBox`/`YtTextBoxCompact`) and paints no colour of its own — the guard is `ytLive.Tests/PropertiesStyleTests.cs` |
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| `OverlayHost.xaml(.cs)` | Root-grid overlay dialogs: Settings / Report Bug / Feature Request / About (+ licenses + license-key entry). `BackToAbout_Click` lives here |
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| `SceneThumbnailStrip.xaml.cs` | Code-behind for the strip above |
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| `LeftPanel.xaml.cs` | Code-behind for the panel above |
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## Window ↔ control contract
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The shell (`MainWindow.xaml(.cs)`) wires up each control and routes the few
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cross-cutting calls through it:
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- Ctor finds each control by `x:Name` (`TopBar`, `PreviewPane`, `LeftPanel`)
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AFTER `InitializeComponent`, **before** any method touches it (null-ref guard).
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- `_previewPane.IsClickInsidePreview/Drawer` + `_leftPanel.IsClickInside` →
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deselection guard in `Window_PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown`.
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- `_previewPane.UpdateSelectionOverlay(bool)` + `_leftPanel.OnSelectionChanged(vm)`
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→ selection/edit-mode routing from the VM's `SelectedElement` change.
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- `_topBar.RefreshAvatar()` on `IsConnected`/`AccountAvatarUrl` change.
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- Handlers in moved controls cast `(DataContext as MainViewModel)` — controls
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inherit the window's DataContext; never pass the VM through a property.
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## Gotchas learned the hard way
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- **A UserControl cannot see `Window.Resources`** (StaticResource resolves by
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element lookup, so it stops at the control boundary). The 7 converters
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(`BoolToVis`, `InverseBoolToVis`, `NotNullToVis`, `NullToVis`, `HiddenBoolToVis`,
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`EnumToBool`, `AllTrueToVis`) were promoted from `MainWindow.Resources` into
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`Themes/Controls.xaml` (see [`Themes/index.md`](../Themes/index.md)).
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- **Moved XAML can lose its namespace**: a block cut from MainWindow carries no
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root xmlns, so any `models:`/`Helpers:` ref in it breaks the build with
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`MC2000: Value cannot be null (key)`. Declare `xmlns:models` / `xmlns:Helpers`
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on each control's root (LeftPanel hit this).
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- **Name-looked-up host stubs must stay in the window**, not a control:
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`WebViewHostPanel` (ctor `InitWebView2(WebViewHostPanel)`) and `ToastArea`
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(`NotificationService.InArea("ToastArea")`) are resolved by name from the
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window root — so `OverlayHost` deliberately leaves them as thin window-root
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children (Commit 18). Since the 2026-09-14 composition-capture redesign only
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`ToastArea` remains — `WebViewHostPanel` is deleted (web sources no longer
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host a multiline XAML control; `InitWebView2()` runs from `MainWindow_Loaded`
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with no panel argument).
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- When cutting visual wrappers, don't drop the outer `Border`'s
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background/glow/margin — Commit 15 initially lost the preview's outer border
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and had to restore it same-commit.
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Related: [`ViewModels/index.md`](../ViewModels/index.md) (MainViewModel the
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controls bind to), [`Themes/index.md`](../Themes/index.md) (styles/converters),
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[`Helpers/index.md`](../Helpers/index.md) (ViewModelBase, converters), the
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`MainWindow.xaml` shell at repo root that hosts these.
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