Improve Project View

[AdamsLair]

• The Project View does its job very well. However, when working in large projects, it gets pretty crowded in there and even using clever folder structures doesn't prevent at least some overview to be lost.
• The interface should be reworked in order to provide a better overview. All of these changes should be optional and user-configurable!
  • The UDK Content Browser does a great job.
  • Split folder and file view.
  • Provide previews for each Resource.
• A full-fledged content browser requires a lot more space than the currently implemented folder / file view.
  • In some cases, the small version might be preferable.
  • It may be a good idea to derive the Project Views display mode from it's dimensions in the editor UI.
  • Need a better overview? Scale it up!
  • Need more space for other UI modules? Scale it down!
• For later implementations of Resource selectors etc. it may be a good idea to split the "Project View" implementation from a possibly existing ProjectResourceView Control.
  • The Project View would simply contain a ProjectResourceView, its current buttons and the search bar and also take care of selection and dragdrop events, etc.
  • The ProjectResourceView would take care of all the displaying and auto-update because of file system events and the like. It should also provide a suitable interface to implement custom dragdrop operations.

[HeadClot]

• The UI should be dockable and should be able to dragged around across multiple monitors. Unreal 4 does this very well.
• The UI should have support for High DPI displays since 4k and 8k displays are becoming a thing now.

[ilexp]

• The UI should be dockable and should be able to dragged around across multiple monitors. Unreal 4 does this very well.

Uhm.. the UI already is dockable ^^ Including multi-monitor support.

• The UI should have support for High DPI displays since 4k and 8k displays are becoming a thing now.

Yep. However, high DPI awareness appears to be a non-trivial task, so it has its own issue here. Hints and pointers on DPI awareness in WinForms and strategies for gradually supporting it are of course appreciated :)

Right now, Duality is flagged as DPI-unaware and will be automatically scaled by Windows - that way it at least remains fully usable, albeit not in the resolution it could be.

[HeadClot]

Derp - I am a nub...