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gramps 89f6aa3a67 TASK 59: the properties panel is a hierarchy, and the shape is a choice
The creator's ruling on the webcam's properties: a "Shape" title above the
Mirror/Rect row; the drag hint indented under that row "to show parentage";
the same for Geometry, Border Color, Border Thickness; Remove and Blur indented
under Background; Strength indented under Blur.

One rule covers it: a title owns its content and the content is indented one
level (10px) under it - two levels where a title is itself nested (Strength
under Blur under Background). The titles are SemiBold 11px #a0a0b0 like the
ones already there.

The shape also stops being a toggle button that shows the NEXT action ("Round"
when the camera was a rectangle) and becomes a CHOICE: two segment options,
Rect | Circle, with Rect selected by default - which is what the creator asked
for ("Rect should be selected as a default if none exists"). The old
ShapeButtonText is gone.

The mutual exclusion lives in the MODEL: IsRectShape/IsRoundShape on
SceneElement, each setter flipping the shape through ToggleClipShape() (so the
pre-round rect is still stored/restored) and always re-raising, so a refused
write - the vertical Chat layout is rect-only (TASK 57) - makes the UI snap
back instead of sticking. Deliberately NOT a WPF RadioButton group: a group
unchecks its siblings by setting IsChecked in code, which makes WPF drop the
binding (stackoverflow 7376373; the same trap measured in 50980687/57275046).

The Circle option stays hidden where CanToggleClipShape is false, so the circle
is still not offered in the vertical Chat layout.

Guard: ytLive.Tests/PropertiesHierarchyTests.cs - the model half (Rect by
default, pick circle, pick rect, the locked Chat layout refuses the circle) and
the panel half (the Shape title owns both options, the circle is the gated one,
the hint is indented and follows the row, every titled block's content is at
10px, Strength at 20px). 432/432 green, 0 warnings.
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Controls — index

The phase-2 carved pieces of what used to be one monolithic MainWindow.xaml (1,681 lines → a 123-line shell). Each is a UserControl in the ytLive.Controls namespace, extracted one roll-back commit at a time (refactor-commit-12..18). See schema.md for the memory-map conventions.

File Purpose
BottomBar.xaml(.cs) Footer (Row 3): stream stats (bitrate/fps/dropped/duration/health), resolution dropdown (gear menu moved up to TopBar 2026-09-22)
HealthBanner.xaml(.cs) Row 1 status banner + the 7 value→visibility converters live in the app theme, not here
TopBar.xaml(.cs) Row 0 session surface (2026-09-22 redesign): brand + gear menu (left), one segmented REC
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)
SceneThumbnailStrip.xaml(.cs) Row 0 scene-picker strip (ItemsControl over Scenes), staged-red / live-green border highlight
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. TASK 59: the webcam's properties are a HIERARCHY — a Shape title owns the mirror switch and the shape choice (Rect
OverlayHost.xaml(.cs) Root-grid overlay dialogs: Settings / Report Bug / Feature Request / About (+ licenses + license-key entry). BackToAbout_Click lives here
SceneThumbnailStrip.xaml.cs Code-behind for the strip above
LeftPanel.xaml.cs Code-behind for the panel above

Window ↔ control contract

The shell (MainWindow.xaml(.cs)) wires up each control and routes the few cross-cutting calls through it:

  • Ctor finds each control by x:Name (TopBar, PreviewPane, LeftPanel) AFTER InitializeComponent, before any method touches it (null-ref guard).
  • _previewPane.IsClickInsidePreview/Drawer + _leftPanel.IsClickInside → deselection guard in Window_PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown.
  • _previewPane.UpdateSelectionOverlay(bool) + _leftPanel.OnSelectionChanged(vm) → selection/edit-mode routing from the VM's SelectedElement change.
  • _topBar.RefreshAvatar() on IsConnected/AccountAvatarUrl change.
  • Handlers in moved controls cast (DataContext as MainViewModel) — controls inherit the window's DataContext; never pass the VM through a property.

Gotchas learned the hard way

  • A UserControl cannot see Window.Resources (StaticResource resolves by element lookup, so it stops at the control boundary). The 7 converters (BoolToVis, InverseBoolToVis, NotNullToVis, NullToVis, HiddenBoolToVis, EnumToBool, AllTrueToVis) were promoted from MainWindow.Resources into Themes/Controls.xaml (see Themes/index.md).
  • Moved XAML can lose its namespace: a block cut from MainWindow carries no root xmlns, so any models:/Helpers: ref in it breaks the build with MC2000: Value cannot be null (key). Declare xmlns:models / xmlns:Helpers on each control's root (LeftPanel hit this).
  • Name-looked-up host stubs must stay in the window, not a control: WebViewHostPanel (ctor InitWebView2(WebViewHostPanel)) and ToastArea (NotificationService.InArea("ToastArea")) are resolved by name from the window root — so OverlayHost deliberately leaves them as thin window-root children (Commit 18). Since the 2026-09-14 composition-capture redesign only ToastArea remains — WebViewHostPanel is deleted (web sources no longer host a multiline XAML control; InitWebView2() runs from MainWindow_Loaded with no panel argument).
  • When cutting visual wrappers, don't drop the outer Border's background/glow/margin — Commit 15 initially lost the preview's outer border and had to restore it same-commit.

Related: ViewModels/index.md (MainViewModel the controls bind to), Themes/index.md (styles/converters), Helpers/index.md (ViewModelBase, converters), the MainWindow.xaml shell at repo root that hosts these.