MicrosoftEdge / MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback
Usable Devtools Overlay.setInspectMode
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Since Dec 16, 2021.
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As a starting point think of the Microsoft Edge Devtools Inspector: on the left hand the original site where an mini-inspector pops up on mouse over, on the right hand a full features inspector.
It is not possible with WebView2 to:
- change the layout of the mini-inspector to a fully custom one, if more so one which could be interacted with by:
- clicking the inspected element the mini-inspector stays and doesn't change
- interaction with elements of the mini-inspector would be possible
- having a constant stream of nodeHighlightRequested when the inspected element changes so that a full featured inspector could be implemented easily
- reuse elements of the build-in full featured inspector
Describe the solution you'd like and alternatives you've considered
- have a webView.CoreWebView2.SetDevToolsOverlayInspectorLayoutAsync call to set the mini-inspector layout
- webView.CoreWebView2.CallDevToolsProtocolMethodAsync("Overlay.setInspectMode", ...); should start an event for each new mouse over DOM element as the mini-inspector changes...
Alternatives:
- compile and ship a modified chromium where at least the layout of the mini-inspector could be changed. But there might be source changes needed to get the described behaviour...
- adding an transparent "overlay" view, getting the DOM-node information by mouse position and drawing the mini-inspector popup on it. But then there might be issues with scrolling (as there are now anyway because the mouse over doesn't change while scrolling, e.g. the mini-inspector doesn't get updated...)
- an webView API which is given a custom overlay view so it can overlay and intercept mouseclicks and stop them from being send to the CoreWebView2 ... . Resizing etc. is done be the webView container/parent.
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