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Stride UI/UX discussion summary

This document is meant to summarize the discussion that started at the end of June 2020 about improving Stride's UI (Game Studio's UI).

Initially MechWarrior99 came up with some ideas on making the UX better. One of these ideas was to make something akin to Blender's Workspaces. Then this issue was mentioned - it may have inspired #637 and #667, which tried to improve somewhat the current UI.

Next MechWarrior99 worked on the improved UI design of different parts of Stride, starting with components (msg). During that time qbic suggested changes to the 3D translation gizmo ([msg](https://discordapp.com/channels/500285081265635328/727168636770582581/728626959126

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Project loading

Given path to sln file or project file.

It starts in SessionViewModel.OpenSession with a call to PackageSession.Load. -> writes into sessionResult then it calls PackageSession.LoadMissingReferences finally we create a new SessionViewModel on the UI thread and call LoadAssetsFromPackages on it.

PackageSession.Load

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Current Stride Editor design document

This document is meant to describe the architecture of the current Stride Editor, so that it's easier to read its source code and rewrite it in a better way. This is in now way a complete document as the Editor is about 35k LOC. I'm slowly going to read through the more interesting parts and note down my thoughts.

View hierarchy

• GameStudioWindow
  • static top bar menu
  • static asset context menu
  • static key bindings (start/cancel build, run game, open debug window, copy asset, show add asset dialog)
• static toolbar tray (icon buttons)