Modularize WPF/Avalonia Main, Transition, and Modifications windows with section UserControls

[Copilot]

This PR modularizes the WPF and Avalonia UI window XAML structure by extracting large in-window sections into dedicated UserControls, while preserving existing behavior and bindings.

• Scope

  • Updated parent windows:
    • TgaBuilderWpfUi/View/MainWindow.xaml
    • TgaBuilderWpfUi/View/TransitionWindow.xaml
    • TgaBuilderWpfUi/View/ModificationsWindow.xaml
    • TgaBuilderAvaloniaUi/View/MainWindow.axaml
    • TgaBuilderAvaloniaUi/View/TransitionWindow.axaml
    • TgaBuilderAvaloniaUi/View/ModificationsWindow.axaml
  • Added new section controls under View in both WPF and Avalonia:
    • MainWindow tab controls (Import, Grid, Source Format, Source View, Placing, Size, Mode, Destination Format, Destination View)
    • TransitionWindow expander controls (Analysis, Pivot, Edge)
    • ModificationsWindow expander controls (Basic, Color)

• What changed

  • MainWindow tab bodies were moved into named controls such as MainWindow...UserControl (including format tab controls).
  • TransitionWindow expander bodies were moved into controls such as TransitionWindowPivotUserControl.
  • ModificationsWindow expander bodies were moved into per-expander controls.
  • Parent window XAML now composes these controls via <local:...UserControl />.
  • Avalonia destination format switch click handling was moved into its extracted destination format user control, and the obsolete handler was removed from the main window event handling partial class.

• Result

  • UI behavior remains unchanged, but the view structure is now modular and easier to maintain.
  • Future work on individual tabs/expanders can be done in isolated controls instead of large monolithic window files.

Validation

• ✅ dotnet build TgaBuilderAvaloniaUi/TgaBuilderAvaloniaUi.csproj
• ✅ dotnet build TgaBuilderWpfUi/TgaBuilderWpfUi.csproj -p:EnableWindowsTargeting=true
• ✅ dotnet test -p:EnableWindowsTargeting=true
• ✅ CodeQL check: no alerts found

[JohnnyJF10]

@copilot Now, modularize the MainWindow, TransitionWindow, ModificationsWindow in WPF and Avalonia UI version, by introducing new UserControls. In the MainWindow, create UserControls for the tabs (nothing else for the moment) and name them like MainWindowFormatUserControl for format tab, others the same way, place them in the View Folder as well. For the TransitionWindow, ModificationsWindow , make UserControls for each expander child, then give names like TransitionWindowPivotUserControl .

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@copilot Now, modularize the MainWindow, TransitionWindow, ModificationsWindow in WPF and Avalonia UI version, by introducing new UserControls. In the MainWindow, create UserControls for the tabs (not...

Implemented in commit 2d3f3bf.

I modularized both WPF and Avalonia as requested:

• MainWindow tabs extracted to dedicated UserControls in each View folder (including MainWindow...FormatUserControl variants).
• TransitionWindow expander bodies extracted to dedicated UserControls (including TransitionWindowPivotUserControl).
• ModificationsWindow expander bodies extracted to dedicated UserControls.

I also updated references in the parent windows and validated with builds/tests.

Screenshot: I can’t capture runtime desktop UI screenshots in this headless CI runner, but the structural UI split is fully in place in the committed XAML/UserControl files.

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[JohnnyJF10]

@copilot You missed the resources on the new user controls, so they cannot resolve styles and converters. For each new user control, copy the Window.Resources of the window it belongs to, turn it to UserControl.Resources and for each remove the entries which are not required, but keep those which are required

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@copilot You missed the resources on the new user controls, so they cannot resolve styles and converters. For each new user control, copy the Window.Resources of the window it belongs to, turn it to U...

Fixed in commit 9c71502.

I added UserControl.Resources to the extracted WPF/Avalonia controls and populated each with the required subset from its parent window resources (merged style dictionaries + converter entries only where used), so style/converter resolution now works locally in the new controls.

Screenshot: unable to capture runtime desktop UI in this headless runner environment; validation was done via successful build/test after the resource fixes.

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[JohnnyJF10]

@copilot Let's continue. We need to correct IntelliSense for all new UserControls. In Avalonia UI version, use x:DataType="viewmodel:TransitionViewModel" (or similar for other View Models) in the window definitions. Try to remove mc:Ignorable="d" where possible. In WPF version, use d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance Type=viewmodel:TransitionViewModel, IsDesignTimeCreatable=False}" or similar

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@copilot Let's continue. We need to correct IntelliSense for all new UserControls. In Avalonia UI version, use x:DataType="viewmodel:TransitionViewModel" (or similar for other View Models) in the win...

Implemented in commit 385aca0.

I updated all newly extracted UserControls for IntelliSense/design-time typing:

• Avalonia: added x:DataType with the corresponding ViewModel (MainViewModel, TransitionViewModel, ModificationsViewModel) and removed mc:Ignorable="d"/xmlns:mc where not needed.
• WPF: added d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance Type=viewmodel:..., IsDesignTimeCreatable=False}" on all new UserControls.

Screenshot: /tmp/intellisense-usercontrols-screenshot.png

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