Keep the window still while typing, redraw the search box, and set the column headings apart by donislawdev · Pull Request #21 · donislawdev/BetterWindowsServices

donislawdev · 2026-09-25T07:24:04Z

What changes on screen

Typing no longer moves the window. A mistake in the query, or a note about something still being read, took a line of its own under the search box from the first character, so everything under it moved down by a line. Measured on the live window: 31 device pixels at the first character before, none of 15 characters after.
Every message in full, in a panel under the search box, while you are in it. It lies over the filters and moves nothing. A mistake and a reading note can both be there, each on its own lines, wrapped as far as they need. Leaving the box puts the panel away, and the box keeps a red edge and a short form of the message at its right end.
A redrawn search box. A magnifier, a fill slightly lighter than the window rather than darker, and a blue focus line in the same blue as the tab underline. The focus line used to take the accent colour of Windows. The text and the short message are two columns, so the text never runs under the message.
Column headings that do not look like rows. Semibold, in a secondary grey, with a line under them. The size and weight set on the heading never reached its text before.
Buttons. A button that cannot be pressed has no fill, and one that can has a slightly stronger fill than before.
Marks. The state and startup type marks are 10 instead of 8.
Fixed: the numbers on the machine overview now light up under the pointer where it can be seen.

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Follow-up to the review of #20, merged before the review arrived:

the README still listed the two copy items the row menu no longer has, and called the third list Everything where the window says All
the row menu test computed the text "Copy everything" should hold with the very function it tested, so it now asks for the fixture's own words
the plan panel's contrast test read TextBlock.Text, which is empty for a block built from runs, so it now reads every run

Each test fix was shown to catch a deliberately broken build that it missed before.

Checked

Window tests of the touched classes, the whole window test project once, and the architecture tests. Four window tests fail in a session without administrator rights, as they always have there: PluralGuards, SecondPhaseTests and two in MainViewModelTests. Each fails on the sentence about missing rights.
Five deliberately broken builds of the new and moved behaviour, all five caught.
The published build photographed on the live window, with a faulty query typed into it.

Not checked

The panel under the search box together with an open suggestion list.
A reading note right after start, when the box already has the keyboard.
The window at 1000 by 800.

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New Features
- Search now appears in a framed field, with query guidance and related messages displayed within the field area.
- Machine overview numbers light up when you point to them, and state and startup-type marks are larger.
Style
- Updated column headings, buttons, and search controls with refreshed colors, borders, and hover states.
Documentation
- Updated window documentation to call the third list “All” and clarify that copy actions include the entry’s name or its full details.

…he README's row menu The row menu test computed what "Copy everything" should hold with the very function it was testing, so a copy that dropped the display name and the description still passed. It now asks for the fixture's own words. The plan panel's contrast test read TextBlock.Text, which is empty for a block built from runs, so the title and the steps were never measured. It now reads every run in the colour it ends up with, and checks that the title and a step were among what it measured. The README still listed the two copy items the row menu no longer has, and called the third list Everything where the window says All. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…e column headings apart Typing no longer moves the window. A mistake in the query or a note about something still being read took a line of its own under the search box from the first character, which moved the whole window by a line. The short form of the message now stands at the right end of the box, and while the keyboard is in the box a panel under it shows every message in full, wrapped, over the filters. Leaving the box puts the panel away. A test holds the search row to one height whatever it says. The search box is one frame with a magnifier, the text and the message side by side, so the text never runs under the message. It was darker than the window and its focus line took the accent colour of Windows. It now has a lighter fill and a blue focus line, the blue of the tab underline. The red edge of a mistake is drawn by the frame. The field's styles are in a file of their own, Themes/SearchField.xaml. The column headings are semibold, in a secondary grey, with a line under them. The size and weight set on the heading never reached its text, because the heading's TextBlock took the implicit style. A disabled button has no fill, and an enabled one has a slightly stronger fill, through the library's own brush keys, so it reaches every button without a style of its own. The state and startup type marks are 10 instead of 8. The numbers on the overview light up under the pointer with the panel's hover brush, which can be seen on a card. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The search field now uses a framed layout with a magnifier, query box, and field messages. Theme styles update headings, controls, and overview numbers. Tests and documentation reflect these presentation and copy-description changes.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Search field layout and messages `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Values.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Spacing.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Surfaces.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/SearchField.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/App.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/MainWindow.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/SearchRow.xaml`, `tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/AppearanceGuards.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/WpfHost.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/AnswerLineGuards.cs`	The search field uses a framed, three-column layout with a magnifier and a field-relative suggestion popup. Query problems and reservation notes appear in a message panel that does not add grid-row height. Tests include the new theme dictionary and check the error color and row height.
Heading, overview, and control styling `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Colours.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Surfaces.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Text.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/List.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Overview.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/Themes/Values.xaml`, `src/Bws.Gui/OverviewView.xaml`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ContrastFloors.cs`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/PlanViewGuards.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Column headings gain a bottom rule and secondary text style. Button and text-box surface resources are added, overview number hover styling changes, and overview headline styling moves into a resource. The mark size increases. Tests update contrast checks and inspect rendered plan text.
Copy-menu documentation and assertion `README.md`, `tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/CopyingAndPanelGuards.cs`	The README describes the third list as “All” and the copy action as including display name and description. The test checks that the expected copy text contains those fixture values.

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Improve the search focus indicator and place the plan overlay above the search row before merging; otherwise the preview can leave search controls accessible.

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Tests For Changed Behavior	✅ Passed	PASS. The authoritative diff changes XAML views/resources, documentation, and test code only. It does not add or change non-UI runtime code. The PR updates UI tests, including a fixed-height search-ro…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers	✅ Passed	The pull-request diff adds no CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .claude, or .env files. Searches of all added lines found no credentials, tokens, private URLs, absolute local paths, machine or user names, interna…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR changes WPF XAML, but the new visual values use shared theme resources and keyed styles. SearchField.xaml references resources for colors, borders, margins, padding, sizes, and corner rad…
No Obvious Performance Problems	✅ Passed	No clear performance problem is introduced. The product changes are XAML layout and styling changes. They add only two message TextBlocks and reposition the existing suggestion popup. The existing non…
Desktop Robustness	✅ Passed	The reviewed changes add XAML resources, styles, layout bindings, documentation, and test assertions. They add no file or settings writes, network calls, process/admin requests, culture-sensitive pars…
Safe File Parsing	✅ Passed	No unsafe file parsing was introduced. The PR adds one static, repository-local `ResourceDictionary Source="Themes/SearchField.xaml"` entry and a finite XAML resource dictionary containing styles, bru…
System Changes Are Reversible	✅ Passed	The pull request does not modify system state. The authoritative diff contains only XAML resources, documentation, and GUI/architecture test updates. The changed production files add resource dictiona…
Clear User-Facing Text	✅ Passed	No new clear-text defect is introduced. The PR adds no localization changes. The search box keeps its existing examples tooltip, and the new truncated answer text has a full-message tooltip. The magni…
No Resource Leaks	✅ Passed	No resource leak was introduced. The production diff adds declarative WPF controls, styles, brushes, and bindings only. It adds no event subscription, timer, thread/task, stream/file/process handle, c…
Scope, Duplication And Docs	✅ Passed	The PR scope matches the title and description. The description covers the fixed-height search row, search-field redraw, message panel, column headings, buttons, marks, overview hover behavior, README…

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In `@src/Bws.Gui/MainWindow.xaml`:
- Line 129: Set PlanPanel’s Z-order higher than SearchRow so the plan scrim and
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tests/Bws.Architecture.Tests/AppearanceGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/AnswerLineGuards.cs
tests/Bws.Gui.Tests/ContrastFloors.cs
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