**A components and variants behaviour suite written from the public documentation, and fixes for every divergence it found.** Each documented rule of instances (what an instance overrides and what it can't, how overrides persist when the main changes, reset), variants (which overrides survive a switch, the default variant, property order, duplicate combinations), swaps (instance menu vs Assets panel), exposed nested instances, detach / reset all / push changes / go to main, resizing and auto layout instances is a table row with the values the rule implies and a one-line derivation; where the documentation is silent the row says so and pins today's behaviour. Nested instance overrides stay covered by `nested_override_tests`, slots by `components_tests`, accepting library updates with overrides kept by `library_tests` / `components_scale_tests` (#91).
**Fixes (9 of the 10 new tests fail on the old code)**
- **Overrides that were silently lost**: auto layout **padding**, **gap** and **alignment** (three override groups, so a padding override still follows the main's gap), **layout grids**, **export settings** and **prototype interactions** on layers inside instances, and every **text property** (resizing, paragraph spacing and indent, lists, max lines, OpenType features) were reset by the next edit of the main. They are override groups now: kept when the main changes that property, carried by variant switches and swaps, pushed to the main, reset per group, and listed in the Overrides section. REST imports map the matching `overriddenFields`. An instance's own export settings and interactions stay its own, like its place (as before).
- **What an instance can't override is refused** (rolled back with a message, one place for every path: commands, MCP, gestures): moving, rotating, flipping, nudging or aligning a layer inside an instance (auto layout items included: their place is the layout's), resizing it (text boxes keep their main's bounds; text whose box follows its content still grows), changing its constraints or resizing (hug / fill / min / max / absolute), and an instance's auto layout direction or other auto layout settings (only padding, gap and alignment are its own). Before, these became `position` / `size` overrides or were lost on the next main edit. Resizing the instance itself still works and its layers follow the main's constraints. Existing `size` / `position` overrides in files are still read and kept.
- **Variant switches** keep an override only where the layer's name path matches *and* both variants had the same value for that property; text layers keep all their changes (by name and hierarchy). Before, every same-named override survived, even where the new variant differs (a hover background overridden back to the default one). The instance's own overrides follow the same rule. Undo brings the dropped overrides back.
- **Alt-drop swaps from the Assets panel** (`instance.swapAt`, `library.swapAt`) keep only text layers' overrides; the instance menu's swap (`instance.swap`) still keeps every override on same-named layers.
- **Default variant = the top-left one** (was the first in layer order): new instances of a set, the set's Assets thumbnail, generated code, `component.properties` defaults and the panel's default dropdown. Picking another default moves that variant to the top-left corner (one undo step).
- **Hidden exposed instances hide their properties** (`instance.exposed`).
- **Push changes from a nested layer** goes to the outer instance's main, never into the nested instance's own main; it reuses the override copy code, so every group above is pushed too.
**Added**
- **Variant property order**: `component.editProperty {name, index}` moves a variant property; every variant's name follows.
- **Duplicate combinations**: `component.properties` reports `conflicts` (variants sharing one combination of values), and the component panel warns until each has a unique one.
- **Design panel**: Position, Rotation, Constraints, Dimensions / resizing and grid cell fields are greyed out (with a tooltip) for layers inside an instance; the auto layout direction, wrap, strokes / canvas stacking and add / remove auto layout are greyed out or hidden for instances. New strings go through `tr(...)` with `en.toml` / `es.toml` entries; disabled controls are announced as disabled.
A file's library can be published to figcraft-server and enabled in other files by a share link (view access is enough); placing, styles, variables and library updates with overrides kept work as for local libraries, with a background check while the Assets panel is open. library.swap re-points instances, styles and variables to another library by name (one undo step, unmatched items listed). The server keeps per-file usage reports (library.usage).
Library collections can be extended in a consuming file (inherited modes, per-mode overrides with reset, extra variables; library updates keep overrides). Variables export to the REST JSON shape or CSS custom properties and import back (merged by name, validated by the REST reader, one undo step). Gradient stops and variant properties bind to variables. Also fixes clicking a gradient stop adding a new stop.
* M3: components at scale; Alt-drag to swap instances
- Synthetic design system (engine `synthetic_ds`): ~300 components (icons; button, input,
card, nav and badge sets of size x state x type x theme variants), boolean/text/instance
swap/slot properties, instances nested four deep, text and paint styles, light/dark
variables bound across it, and 2,000 instances with overrides at every level.
- Propagation: value, size and added/removed-layer edits of mains reach their copies
directly; other edits rebuild each affected instance once, inner mains first; rebuilds keep
unchanged layers shared; bound variables no longer touch unchanged layers; auto layout
re-flows only where sizes or places changed.
- Fixes: values from variables (theme switches, bound radii) are no longer recorded as
overrides; a detached variable on an instance layer is an override that survives main
edits; exposed nested instances stay exposed; swapped nested instances keep their layer
names and the ids/overrides of layers their own main adds; renamed nested instances keep
their name when detached out.
- Instance swap properties have preferred values. `instance.swapAt` / `library.swapAt` and
Alt-drop from the Assets panel onto an instance swap it (highlighted while dragging).
- Instances pasted into other files follow their mains (library copies shared, published
components used from their library, other mains left behind as a missing main).
- Assets panel lays out only visible tiles and renders thumbnails lazily with a cache
invalidated per changed component; instance panel lists components once per revision.
- `figcraft-cli perf --instances`, UI frame bench and tests in components_scale_tests.
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* M3: the swap perf case drops on a glyph the hit test reaches
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* Merge origin/main into feat/components-scale; weighted depth 79%
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Fill, stroke, effect and layout grid rows drag to reorder by their grip (a handle shows over the
row, an insertion line where it lands, the row's label follows the pointer like a dragged layer;
Escape cancels; lists that differ across the selection have nothing to drag). New commands
`fill.move`, `stroke.move` and `grid.move {ids?, from, to}` join `effect.move` (lists bottom first,
one undo step; items keep everything, linked list styles are unlinked).
Variable bindings on list items follow their items when a list is reordered or shrinks:
paint colours bind per paint (`fills/<i>/color`, `strokes/<i>/color`; `fill`/`stroke` stay the
first paint's), so a moved bound paint keeps its variable and its neighbours are never recoloured.
`fill.remove`, `stroke.remove` and `grid.remove` refuse negative indices.
Layout grids get settings in the Design panel (size; count, type, width or height, margin or
offset, gutter; colour) whose numbers bind to number variables (`layoutGrids/<i>/<field>`),
re-applied on variable and mode changes. Instance boolean and text properties bind to boolean and
string variables (`componentProperties/<name>`, from the instance's properties panel), kept across
instance rebuilds, following property renames and dropped on delete, reset and detach.
Inspect names the variable of each paint.
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Slots: a frame of a main component becomes a slot property
(component.makeSlot / removeSlot, preferred components, type "slot" in
component.properties). Instances show the main's default content until
the slot is edited; from then on its layers are the instance's own
(override group "slot"): free to add, remove and reorder, kept across
main updates, variant switches, copy/paste and detach, and instances
placed there stand alone. instance.slotInsert fills a slot,
instance.resetSlot brings the default content back. Structure
protection allows edits inside slots only; drops from the Assets panel,
canvas drags, drawing and paste land in slots. UI: slot icon in the
layers panel, dashed outlines and labels on the canvas, slot property
rows with a fill menu in the properties panel, Make/Remove slot on
frames inside a main.
Nested overrides: overrides inside a nested instance survive the main
moving it into another frame (layers matched by source alone when
unique); a nested instance copied out of an instance is re-linked to
its own main with its look kept (values set by component properties
aren't overrides); plain layers copied out of instances stop mirroring
them; canvas drags can no longer pull layers out of an instance or
reorder its auto layout children. Tests for swaps, variant switches,
main restructuring, detach and copy/paste.
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- Publish (`library.publish {description?, include?, exclude?}`, Libraries > Publish library…):
the file's components, component sets and styles (by default all but names starting with `.` or
`_`, or what the last publish offered) and every component and style they use go into a snapshot
with a manifest (library id, version, per-asset version stamps). An asset keeps the version it
last changed in; publishing without changes is refused.
- .figcraft: `library/manifest.json`, `library/document.json` (the snapshot) and
`library/images/<sha256>` for images only the library still uses. Older files and readers are
unaffected (extra members); a damaged library is skipped and reported when the author's file
opens. Files using a library read only these members (size-limited), never unpublished edits.
- Version history: the library entries are written and read alongside the versions (a library
survives saving with versions and reopening); restoring a version keeps what the file published.
- Enable: `library.add {path}` / `library.remove {id}` / `library.list {assets?}`; the document
keeps its enabled libraries (id, name, path, last seen version) in its data. The session caches
each library file and reads it again when it changes on disk; in the browser these commands
return a clear error (no file system).
- Use: `library.place {library, component, x?, y?}` / `library.import` copy the component (with
the components and styles it uses) into a hidden library store (a page-like root outside the
page list) as read-only main components and place an instance; instances behave like any other
(overrides, properties, variants, swap, reset, detach). `library.applyStyle` copies a style in as
a linked remote style. Editing the copies or library styles is refused; Go to main component
names the library. Importing a file's pages brings its library copies along (shared with copies
the document already has).
- Updates: `library.updates` and `library.acceptUpdates {ids?}` re-import changed copies in place
(layer ids kept, so instance overrides survive, also when layers are added); unused copies are
dropped when a library is removed or updated.
- Assets panel: each enabled library's components (thumbnails, search, click or drag to place,
shared with the local tile code) and styles (click to apply, paint swatches), collapsible per
library; "Library updates available" banner with Update; a libraries view (book button,
Libraries menu) to publish this file (choose assets, description) and add or remove library
files. Local styles in the panels list only this file's styles.
- Tests: manifest round trip and versions, add/place/update keeping overrides (incl. a structural
update), variants/swap/undo, library styles and importing pages, missing/corrupt/truncated/
oversized/never-published files; format tests for damaged and oversized members.
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- A nested instance inside a main component can be exposed (`component.exposeInstance`, an
"Expose properties to instances" toggle in its panel); the main's instances then list it by
name with its variant and component property controls, recursively for exposed instances
inside it. Values set there are nested overrides and survive main edits.
- `instance.exposed {id}` lists an instance's exposed nested copies (for the CLI and MCP).
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- Assets tab rebuilt as its own module: local components as two-column tiles with live
thumbnails (re-rendered when a component's content changes, throttled), a search field that
filters components and styles, and the local styles list.
- Drag a tile onto the canvas: a ghost follows the pointer, the frame under it highlights and auto
layout frames show the insertion line; releasing drops an instance there, centred on the
pointer. Clicking a tile places one in the middle of the view.
- New command `instance.place {component, x, y}` (page point; drops into the frame or auto layout
slot under it; never inside its own main) for the CLI, control channel and MCP.
- The auto layout drop slot is shared with moving layers (`drop::auto_layout_slot`).
- Creating a component from a single shape names it after the shape.
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