KeldorKatarn
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Request for Inspector to become available to every license holder

04 Feb 2025, 00:29

I wasn't fully aware (my own fault) that the inspector wasn't available to everyone when I licensed Noesis as an Indie.
While I can understand keeping some stuff for Pro licenses, the Inspector I feel is not one of them that make sense.
As a WPF developer, inspecting the Visual Tree is part of my daily workflow and an essential debugging tool (that can also be used to diagnose bugs in Noesis).
Working without being able to inspect the Tree is a major pain in the butt and makes working with Noesis a pain that costs me valuable time in my project to diagnose sometimes trivial problems, time I cannot necessarily afford as an independent developer.
I hope Studio will be available to all license holders.

I hope you will reconsider this. To me this makes no sense as Indie developers using Noesis are trying to build a business model that if successfull will guarantee long term use of Noesis and bigger licenses being bought. But if Noesis turns out to hard to use (I'm still in preproduction) I might have to take the step to move towards a UI I enjoy way less working with but will be better able to debug, which would be a real shame. I think the ability to properly inspect and debug the Visual Tree is a necessary component of all XAML development, which is why it's a built-in feature for most IDEs that support XAML development. Noesis is already hampered by having to work with Blend (until Studio comes out) for design. not being able to inspect the ingame visual tree is making it even more unattractive on early evaluation.

Once I release my first game developed with it, I also thought about maybe doing a video series with some tutorials for people. But even for that I'd need to be able to show the visual tree to explain to people what is happening and how it works. Especially for self-created panels and decorators and such that is essential to understand what's going on. Without the ability to visualize this to someone that would be useless.

Just my two cents. (Which you can disregard if Rider will be able to do this in the next version)
 
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Re: Request for Inspector to become available to every license holder

04 Feb 2025, 13:51

Inspector is available to all license holders. It is not available in the evaluation versions you can download for our website.

Noesis Studio is going to be public and free for everyone. Source code will be available to licensees with access to Noesis source code.
 
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Re: Request for Inspector to become available to every license holder

Yesterday, 09:20

Sorry, my bad. I read in some of your documentation that it was limited to Pro and above licenses.

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