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>
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.
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: 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>
Type tool point/box text creation, double-click editing, caret and selection
in the viewer (viewer_text.rs), keyboard/IME/clipboard, box handles; engine
text.edit/endEdit/setSelection/moveCaret/insert/delete, layer.setText range,
caret insertion style, Paste Text and Match Formatting / Paste Text
Formatting Only (stubs removed); Character/Paragraph/Properties panels act
on the selection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brandon Thomas