As in After Effects, the Preset menu in Composition Settings / New Composition gets a Save
button (asks for the name in a Choose Name window; an existing name of yours is replaced) and a
Delete button for the selected preset of yours. Your presets keep frame size, pixel aspect and
frame rate, are listed above the built-in ones and live in the settings (`compPresets`), so they
survive restarts and Reset All. Commands: `comp.savePreset`, `comp.deletePreset`, `comp.presets`.
A hand-edited settings file loses only its invalid presets.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Double-clicking a text layer in the Timeline (its name or its bar) edits its text in the
Composition viewer with the whole text selected, as in After Effects; it used to open the rename
field (Enter still renames). The layer bar had no double-click at all: it now opens a precomp,
opens footage and solids in the Layer panel and edits text, like the name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Alt-click on a layer's Video, Audio, Solo or Lock switch sets that layer
apart: the other layers go off (or locked), and the next Alt-click brings
them back. Backed by layer.setSwitch {others: true}, one undo step.
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Magnification ▸ Fit up to 100% stored the magnification of the moment it
was picked, so the comp kept that size when the panel was maximized or
resized. It is now a fit mode like Fit, capped at 100%.
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Two follow-ups to ending text editing on a click in another panel.
A press anywhere in a panel group focused the group's shown panel, even
a press on another of its tabs. Opening Properties or Character behind
Effects & Presets (as in Undocked Panels) therefore ended the edit on
the press, before the tab's click focused the panel chosen, and later
formatting went to the whole layer instead of the selected characters
(an empty Type-tool layer was even removed). A press on another tab now
waits for that tab's click.
The click away is resolved after the frame's panels, so keys that came
after it in the same frame's input were still typed into the text. The
text keyboard handler now takes the frame's keys in order up to a press
outside the viewer: keys before the click are typed, keys after it are
neither typed nor run as shortcuts, and from the next frame they are
the app's.
Tests: opening_a_formatting_tab_keeps_the_text_selection (a real click
on the Properties tab keeps the edit and its selection; Faux Bold then
styles only "Hello") and keys_after_a_click_away_in_the_same_frame_skip_
the_text ("A", a click on a Timeline row, then "x", Space and Delete in
one frame: only "A" is typed, nothing is played or deleted; Space in the
next frame plays). Both fail on the previous commit.
With Fill or Stroke set to Linear or Radial Gradient, clicking its
toolbar swatch opened Fill / Stroke Options, so the gradient's colours
couldn't be edited from the toolbar as in After Effects (reported on
Discord, EffectCraft 0.8.0 on Windows 11). The swatch now opens the
Gradient Editor (prop.editGradient) on the selected shape layer's first
Gradient Fill or Gradient Stroke Colors, in contents order through nested
groups; OK sets that property. With no shape layer selected, or none
with that gradient, the swatch opens the options as before (the kind new
shapes get: the toolbar keeps no gradient stops of its own yet). The
words still open the options, a Solid Color swatch the colour picker,
and Alt-click still steps through the kinds.
Tests (ui_toolbar_gradient): a Linear Fill swatch opens the editor on the
layer's Gradient Fill Colors and OK saves an added stop; a Radial Stroke
swatch edits the Gradient Stroke, not the fill; without a selected
gradient the options open; the words, Solid swatches and Alt-click are
unchanged. The two gradient-swatch tests fail without this change.
Problem: the extra panes of View > Switch View Layout were fixed to Top, Front and Right, and the 3D View menu only changed the main view.
Fix: every extra pane has a view selector (Active Camera, Default, Front, Left, Top, Back, Right, Bottom, Custom View 1-3). The choice is kept per comp in Views3D::panes (serde default, so older editor states load with Top/Front/Right) and set by the new command view.setPaneView {pane 0-3, view}. The Active Camera pane renders through the comp camera.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After typing into a text layer, clicking another panel (a solid in the
Timeline, say) left the edit open, and the viewer took the keyboard back
as soon as nothing had the focus: typed characters went into the text
and Space added a space instead of playing.
A click in any panel other than the viewers and the panels that format
the selected characters (Character, Paragraph, Properties) now ends the
edit with text.endEdit, so the text is kept and an empty layer the Type
tool started is removed, and the viewer's text focus is surrendered. The
editor takes the keyboard back only after a click in the viewer or one
of those panels, no longer merely because nothing has the focus. A click
elsewhere in the viewer still commits, and with the Type tool still
starts new text.
Test: clicking_another_panel_stops_typing_into_text, with the Type tool
and with an edit started by command: Character > Faux Bold keeps the edit,
its selection and typing; clicking the solid's Timeline row ends it,
selects the solid, typed characters leave the text unchanged and Space
plays; an empty Type-tool layer is removed. Fails on main.
Problem: the viewer blurred hard edges even at Full resolution and 100 %
(reported on Discord). The frame rect was centred without snapping to
physical pixels, so bilinear sampling blended neighbouring pixels at 1:1
(worst at 125 %/150 % display scaling); More Accurate also magnified
bilinearly, so 200 %+ and lower resolutions were smoothed; and Zoom In /
Zoom Out stepped in points, so at 125 % scaling they never reached 100 %.
Fix: snap the frame origin (and the ViewerMap overlays use) to the
physical pixel grid; magnify with nearest in both Zoom Quality modes
(CPU texture options and the GPU frame sampler), keeping the averaged
minification below 100 % (#417); the snapshot texture follows the same
options; Zoom In / Out step through screen-pixel magnifications.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Problem: a movie whose profile the software decoders lack (H.264 High 4:2:2 / 10-bit)
probes fine, then every frame read fails; MediaPool logged the error per frame and returned
None, so the layer rendered black with no sign why in the viewer, Project panel or for agents.
Fix: MediaPool records the reason once per file (codec from the probe plus the decoder's text
without error wrappers; I/O errors stay with missing-footage handling), logs it once, and
exposes it through the new FootageSource::problem. The Composition viewer shows it on the
affected layer, the Project panel marks the item with a warning whose tooltip is the reason,
and project.summary / footage.info carry a "problem" field. Cleared when the file is
forgotten; only set when decoding really failed, so a hardware decoder that handles the file
shows nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Problem: with several layers selected, right-clicking one of them in the
Timeline (name row or layer bar) and choosing Pre-compose, Delete,
Duplicate, ... re-selected and acted on only the right-clicked layer.
Right-clicking an unselected layer did not select it. In the Project
panel, Move to Project Root moved only the right-clicked item.
Fix: as in After Effects, a right-click on a selected layer keeps the
selection and the menu's commands target every selected layer (in comp
order); a right-click on an unselected layer selects only it. Move to
Project Root uses the same selection targets as Delete and Label.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Problem: Tab in a Project panel rename (or comment) field committed the
edit and egui moved keyboard focus to the next widget, the row's label
swatch. While it held focus, Enter no longer renamed (it "clicked" the
swatch), the arrow keys moved between widgets and app shortcuts paused.
Fix: the field keeps Tab through its event filter (arrows as before);
Tab surrenders focus and commits like Enter, so nothing else takes the
keyboard and the next Enter renames again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Problem: in a 2- or 4-view layout the Top / Front / Right views drew no
camera or light wireframes, so moving a camera showed nothing there
(reported on Discord).
Fix: draw_rigs takes the view camera explicitly and a pane name for its
automation ids; aux_views draws the wireframes of each extra view through
that view's camera, clipped to the pane, with ids
viewer.view.<view>.camera.<id> / .light.<id>.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
At 200 % in a 1600x1000 window, Previous / Next / Cancel / OK were cut
off. Settings sized its pages from the window height less a fixed 170,
and the shared modal put everything, buttons included, in one more
scroll area, so a footer that didn't fit scrolled out of the dialog.
The modal helper gets a modal_fit variant without that scroll area: it
hands its body the height left under the title. Settings lays out its
buttons first, from the bottom up, and gives the page list and the page
what they leave; both scroll on their own and the buttons stay put. The
pages are a clipped child, so a wide page can't widen the dialog under
the buttons. Other dialogs keep modal as it was.
Tests: settings_buttons_stay_in_view_at_200_percent opens Settings at
200 % in 1600x1000 and checks that each button is inside the window and
painted unclipped (fails before this change: the scroll area clipped
them at the bottom). It scrolls the page to UI Scale without moving
them, then types 150 and clicks Cancel (200 % again, nothing saved) and
OK (150 % saved). The UI Scale test no longer needs a larger window and
clicks Cancel at 200 %.
Problem: Layer > New > Text (menu, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T, Timeline context menus)
created a layer with the placeholder "Text" and no edit session, so typed keys
ran shortcuts; users then renamed the layer (Enter) and the name, not the
Source Text, got their text.
Fix: as in After Effects, the UI dispatch runs layer.newText with an empty
text and an edit session (insertion point in the comp centre); the name
follows the typed text. engine.execute keeps the headless default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With a shape layer's Gradient Fill or Gradient Stroke (or a property in
it) selected, its Start Point and End Point show in the viewer as
draggable crosshairs with a guide between them, as in After Effects. The
points are in the space of the shape group holding the gradient, so they
are mapped through the enclosing groups' transforms and the layer's
(shapes::item_matrix), and a drag converts back the same way. A drag is
one prop.set merge: one undo step, and on an animated point a keyframe at
the current time. The hook runs after the viewer's own gestures, like the
effect point controls, so a handle takes the press and the layer doesn't
move. They follow View ▸ Show Layer Controls.
Tests (ui_gradient_handles, only pre-existing APIs, all three fail without
this): dragging the End Point moves it by the drag in one undo step without
moving the layer; inside a moved, 200%-scaled group the handle sits where
the group draws the point and a drag converts to group space; no handles
unless the gradient or a property in it is selected, or with layer
controls off. ui_effect_controls still passes.
The app's item spacing left 4 px between two menu entries where neither
highlighted and a click did nothing. Menus (context menus, the menu bar,
menu buttons and their submenus) now use a menu style with no row gap and
rows taller by that gap, so they keep their size.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previous / Next Frame also answer to Cmd+Left / Cmd+Right Arrow, and Back / Forward
10 Frames to Cmd+Shift+Left / Right, next to the Page keys (After Effects' second
default keys). A command spec can now list several default shortcuts
(`alt_shortcuts`, `cmd!(…, ["PageDown", "Cmd+ArrowRight"], …)`); menus and tooltips
keep showing the first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Port of storytold/photocraft#2445. Each theme in the appearance picker gets a
star at the right edge of its row. Starred themes are saved with the
preferences and listed in a right-click menu on the header's appearance button,
next to Appearance Settings, so switching between favorites takes one click.
- The Layer panel keeps its own magnification and pan (`ui.layer_zoom`,
`ui.layer_pan`) with the Composition panel's magnification menu in its
footer; the wheel / pinch zooms around the pointer, the Hand tool,
Space-drag and a middle-drag pan, and the Zoom tool clicks zoom in
(Alt: out). Navigation never paints or makes Roto Brush strokes.
- View > Zoom In / Zoom Out / Fit / Actual Size act on the Layer panel
while it is focused, else on the Composition viewer as before.
- A Roto Brush click or drag in the Composition panel says the brush
works in the Layer panel; double-clicking a layer there with a Roto
Brush tool opens it in the Layer panel (as After Effects).
- Opening another layer resets the Layer panel to Fit.
Tests: crates/ui-egui/tests/ui_layer_panel_zoom.rs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brandon Thomas