**A frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite written from the public documentation, and fixes for every divergence it found.** Each documented rule (frames vs. groups when resized, constraints, Cmd/Ctrl-resize, clip content, Frame selection, grouping and ungrouping, group bounds and opacity, X/Y in groups, click targets, drawing a frame or section around layers, dropping into and out of frames, where sections may go, resizing sections, top-level frames as screens and exports, Use as mask, what a mask covers, alpha / vector / luminance masks, groups as masks, clicks on masked-out areas, a mask group's box and exports) is a table-driven case with the result the rule implies and a one-line derivation; where the documentation is silent the case says so and pins today's behaviour.
**Fixes (the suite failed on 7 tests before them)**
- **Masked-out areas don't take clicks**: hit testing and Select layer skip what a visible mask hides (the nearest mask below a layer; for a group or frame used as a mask, what its layers draw), so a click there reaches what's behind. Checked only once something is hit, and skipped in files without a mask (`Document::has_masks`, worked out once after each change), so hit testing costs what it did.
- **A mask group's box and exports are the mask's**: a group's bounds and export area count a mask for the layers it masks (layers under the mask still count), so the selection box, W/H, snapping and PNG/SVG/PDF exports crop to the mask instead of the whole masked layer (`Document::box_children`).
- **Sections stay on the page or in sections**: moving a section into a frame or group (`node.reparent`, refused at the root in `Document::reparent`), dragging one over a frame (it lands in the section around the frame, or on the page), grouping or framing a section, creating a section in a frame and pasting one into a selected frame (it goes on the page) no longer put sections where they can't be.
- **Drawing a frame or section around layers puts them in it**: the layers fully inside the drawn box (its siblings; visible and unlocked; a frame never takes a section; not in auto layout) move into it, in their order, without moving on the page; one undo step.
- **Resizing a section leaves its contents** where they are on the page (no constraints in sections), from a field, a handle (also the left/top edges) or `transform.resize` with any anchor.
- **Cmd/Ctrl while resizing a frame leaves its layers as they are**: #133 (merged in) keeps their places; this branch also keeps their sizes (the frame is resized without running constraints, so a left & right or scale child no longer stretches and is only moved back).
- **X/Y are measured in the frame, not the group**: groups and boolean groups have no coordinate space of their own, so a layer in a group shows (Design panel, `node.get`, `inspect_document`) and takes (`node.set`, `node.create` with a group parent) X/Y in the frame the group is in, or on the page (`Document::frame_relative`). Rotated groups too.
Already there and now covered by the suite: constraints when a frame resizes, groups scaling their layers, clip content (drawing, hits, export size), Frame selection's size and place, grouping/ungrouping keeping world transforms (rotated groups too), nested groups, empty groups going away, group opacity on the composite, click / Cmd-click / double-click targets (frames in sections count as top-level frames), dropping by the pointer and pulling out, group layers staying in their group when dragged, top-level frames as prototype screens and export boards, Use as mask (bottom layer, "Mask group", at the topmost layer's place, single-layer toggle), masks covering every layer above them, hidden masks, alpha / vector / luminance masks, a group as a mask, masks in SVG and PDF exports.
No new commands or UI strings (no i18n changes); each edit stays one undo step.
A 64-case behaviour suite derived from public documentation (sizing, padding, strokes, gaps, alignment, wrap, absolute position, grid, stacking) plus command-level tests. Fixes: frames never shrink below their padding, only the frame's own inside stroke counts when strokes are included (now the default for new auto layout), auto gaps stop at 0, grid fr tracks never go below their content, and canvas stacking (reverseZ) now drives drawing, exports and hit testing. New settings: evenly/around auto gaps, vertical wrap with a column gap, per-child grid cell alignment, strokes included/excluded and canvas stacking in the Design panel.
Clicks on a boolean group test its computed result, so a click in a subtracted hole reaches what is behind it. Layers inside a group, boolean group or instance stay in their parent when dragged (one shared rule). View > Frame outlines and Slices now draw. The idle test's flake came from the render worker clearing its in-flight flag before waking the UI; jobs now carry sequence numbers.
* 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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* M2: auto layout keyboard reordering, nested auto layout fixes, section hide contents and dev status
- Arrow keys move auto layout children one place: along the flow (past hidden and
absolute siblings), between wrapped rows, to the neighbouring grid cell, and into
the neighbouring nested auto layout frame; no undo step when nothing moves.
- Sections: section.toggleContents (hide contents), object.wrapInSection, frames in
sections are top-level frames (labels, flows, navigation, PDF export), navigating
to a section shows its frame shown last.
- Ready for dev turns "Changed" when contents are edited; dev.resolveChange with a reason.
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* M2: README and ROADMAP for auto layout arrow keys and sections
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* M7: roadmap refresh after #68–#77
Parity table rows for canvas, selection and transform, layers, effects,
text, prototyping and comments now reflect the merged work; weighted
feature depth ~76%; README command count and hand-off features.
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* M2: the dev change reason resolves only on Enter or Resolve
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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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Layout (crates/layout):
- Fill children take their size before the frame is sized, so wrapping fill
text, frames that hug it and grid rows settle in a single pass (three
levels deep included).
- Fill children share space like CSS flexbox: min and max violations are
resolved in turn instead of freezing both at once.
- A single child with space-between sits at the start; a wrapped row of only
fill-height children keeps their height; grids size fill-width children
before their rows.
- coherent_sizing: Fill only in an auto layout flow on an axis the parent
doesn't hug, Hug only on auto layout frames and text (a text hugs what its
resize mode grows); anything else becomes Fixed at its size.
Engine:
- Setting a child to Fill turns a hugging parent Fixed on that axis; a parent
that starts to hug, layers leaving auto layout and layout.remove fix the
rest (applied in normalize).
- Moving layers: the deepest auto layout frame under the pointer wins (plain
frames in a flow are items, not destinations; the dragged layers and their
descendants are skipped); the frame they come from keeps them near its
edge. They take the slot (or grid cell) there with the insertion line drawn
in the gap and the receiving frame outlined; out of auto layout they become
positioned children of the canvas or plain frame at the drop point. One
undo step per drag. Slots skip hidden and absolute children.
Tests: crates/layout/src/nested_tests.rs, crates/engine/src/al_nesting_tests.rs.
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- Dragging a child of a wrapping row layout inserts by visual row and position (rows are found
from the flow, so the insertion line spans the right row), instead of by x alone.
- Dragging a child of a grid layout places it in the cell under the pointer (nearest cell over
gaps), with a dashed cell highlight while dragging; one undo step.
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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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