From e5c620218d0a7ed734f5752810fc5c4aa4cfb6de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Ford <james@sickheadgames.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:49:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] For purposes of property editing, a selected folder is
 now treated as an alias for having all child content items (recursively)
 selected.

---
 Tools/Pipeline/Common/PipelineController.cs |  2 +-
 Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs                | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Tools/Pipeline/Common/PipelineController.cs b/Tools/Pipeline/Common/PipelineController.cs
index f52c493a7ac..f5fb9d6c508 100644
--- a/Tools/Pipeline/Common/PipelineController.cs
+++ b/Tools/Pipeline/Common/PipelineController.cs
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ public void Build(bool rebuild)
             BuildCommand(commands);
         }
 
-        private IEnumerable<IProjectItem> GetItems(IProjectItem dir)
+        public IEnumerable<IProjectItem> GetItems(IProjectItem dir)
         {
             foreach (var item in _project.ContentItems)
                 if (item.OriginalPath.StartsWith(dir.OriginalPath + "/"))
diff --git a/Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs b/Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs
index c6a4a2f0068..6c76e992bb1 100644
--- a/Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs
+++ b/Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs
@@ -210,7 +210,38 @@ public void EndTreeUpdate()
 
         public void UpdateProperties()
         {
-            propertyGridControl.SetObjects(PipelineController.Instance.SelectedItems);
+            // Convert selected DirectoryItems into ContentItems
+
+            var stack = new List<IProjectItem>();
+            var results = new List<IProjectItem>();
+
+            stack.AddRange(PipelineController.Instance.SelectedItems);
+
+            while (stack.Count > 0)
+            {
+                var walk = stack[stack.Count - 1];
+                stack.RemoveAt(stack.Count - 1);
+
+                if (walk is ContentItem)
+                {
+                    if (!results.Contains(walk))
+                        results.Add(walk);
+
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                if (walk is DirectoryItem)
+                {
+                    var children = PipelineController.Instance.GetItems(walk);
+                    foreach (var child in children)
+                    {
+                        if (!stack.Contains(child))
+                            stack.Add(child);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            
+            propertyGridControl.SetObjects(results);
         }
 
         public void OutputAppend(string text)

From 3d305e00e6092e5fa8581e7052ea42ec10acb3af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Ford <james@sickheadgames.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:25:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] can now edit the project properties again

---
 Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs b/Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs
index 6c76e992bb1..5f451f471a7 100644
--- a/Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs
+++ b/Tools/Pipeline/MainWindow.cs
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ public void UpdateProperties()
                 var walk = stack[stack.Count - 1];
                 stack.RemoveAt(stack.Count - 1);
 
-                if (walk is ContentItem)
+                if (walk is ContentItem || walk is PipelineProject)
                 {
                     if (!results.Contains(walk))
                         results.Add(walk);