Syncing an in-game editing mode with Construct 2's layouts in the interface?

So, I've created a somewhat robust in-game object creation/deletion and metadata-editor mode as seen here:

Edit Mode

While this is merely meant for quick tests without having to open up/go back to Construct 2, is there some way I can have changes synced to Construct 2's layouts in the editor interface or is that impossible? What I mean like is, if I spawn an object via the edit-mode, save the game, then save Construct 2, close it and then reopen it, the object will appear in the layout in Construct 2's editor? Or is that impossible or generally unfeasible and really difficult to do? I figured I could use JSON to store layout objects but I haven't fiddled much with JSON beyond savedata/dict usage.

It probably is more involved than it appears at first glance. Mostly tedious.

Layouts in capx files are in a xml format and if you add more layouts you’ll need to modify the project.xml in the capx to add it to the layout list.

Modifying layout xml files instead of just creating them are more involved. Probably would require parsing the entire layout, and then you’d have to decide what to remove or add. A easier bet is to save everything from in game and just recreate a new layout xml.

So you can still save your game in json or whatever but it will ultimately need to be recreated in xml in the format the construct2 uses. Save your game as a folder or open your capx as a zip file to see how these xml files are formatted. As an exercise see if you can duplicate an instance. Basically that’s all you’ll be doing to generate a layout, or rather that’s what a program will be doing.

Anyways the basic flow is:

1 save to a file from your running game.

2. Close the capx in construct

3. Take that file, generate the layout xml and insert it in the capx.

The closest I’ve done before is to take a tiled file and create a layout.xml with a sprite per tile. This pre-dated the tilemap plugin. It was more of a one shot thing though, so I did a lot of it manually.

It’s an interesting idea though.