https://github.com/archo5/vsext_numtweak

here's the extension

it's limited to VS2017 for now because that's what I use (but you can change the version range in package config)

it should work for other versions as well (based on what the docs suggested) but I haven't bothered to test any

curious if anyone can come up with improvements

I'd like to upload a prebuilt package but I need to dogfood it first and the chances that others are still using VS2017 seem small

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converted the preview to an "adornment" (as VS calls overlapping UI layers)

also added a preview indicating which digit would be modified by scrolling

this concludes the prototype work so all that's left to do is to polish the remaining rough edges and clean everything up

also didn't have room to mention previously - I've sidestepped the undo history merging issue when committing on each tiny edit by only committing when right alt is released instead

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making some progress

here's number tweaking with the scroll wheel while holding right alt, optionally holding 5/6/7/8/9/0 to change which position should be tweaked

decided to just use the decimal type with string cleanup (trailing zeroes) to avoid having to do complex string manipulation myself

the number keys do not seem to trigger menu events that eat the "right alt up" event like the [B N M , . /] keys did, hopefully that won't change in the future (win11/vs>2017)

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lol so now I'm working on a #VisualStudio extension where you can scroll a number up or down if you hold down Right Alt

got the basics working too but now it's only handling one digit for now (the last one or the one right before dot, if a dot was found), and spamming the undo history with each step

I could probably have number in-/decrementor as a separate testable function to speed up development of that part and focus on seeing what I can get out of VS wrt undo/selections

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