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bflatastic e917d3c2e6 M1: frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes
**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.
2026-10-12 00:57:43 +07:00

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UI and interaction parity

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-11 · Change: minor (frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, F8 box selection; selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes; Display P3: gamut warning and soft-proof (true P3 blocked upstream); several windows; boolean hit testing on the result, group drags, frame outlines and slices; outlines for the selection, mask outlines; arc fields, live boolean editing, shape builder on strokes, one-sided widths) · Target: Figma Design UI3 (desktop app 126.10.7)

Fine canvas control is what Figma users feel first: handles, snapping, nudging, modifier keys, drag behaviour, numeric precision. This checklist covers the tools, gestures and panels. Status: done (built and checked against Figma's documented behaviour or by eye), partial, missing. Nothing here has been compared tool by tool against the running Figma yet; that pass is the main remaining work (40–60 h, gaps #4).

Summary (estimated): UI/UX fidelity ~58%. Layout and look of UI3 compared side by side (~65%); interaction feel not yet compared.

Window and panels

Item Status Notes
UI3 layout: tab strip as title bar, icon rail, file header, pages + layers, floating bottom toolbar with flyouts, Design / Prototype / Inspect panels done frameless window on Windows/Linux with drawn buttons
Light and dark themes done colours from theme::Tokens
Minimize UI (Cmd+\) done
Resizable panels partial check widths and snap points against Figma
Actions palette (Cmd+K, Cmd+/) done commands; no assets search parity
Context menus done canvas and layers; Shift+F10 opens them from the keyboard (at the focused layer row or below the canvas selection) and the menu takes the keyboard; the Menu key isn't delivered by the windowing layer (egui 0.36 has no key for it)
Main menu from the logo done generated from catalog.rs; popups sized to content
Keyboard shortcuts panel done docked, tabbed by group, searchable, per-platform keycaps
Several windows partial File ▸ New window, Open in new window on a tab, a tab dragged off the strip; screen-reader tree in the main window only; positions not restored
Multiplayer avatars, Share button missing waits for multiplayer

Selection and transform

Item Status Notes
Click, Shift-click, marquee, Shift-marquee toggle done a marquee selects what it touches; from a top-level frame's background, the layers inside it; locked and hidden layers are skipped (selection_behaviour_tests)
Deep select (Cmd/Ctrl-click, Cmd/Ctrl-marquee) done
Select layer menu (every layer under the click) done
Enter / Shift+Enter (children / parent), Tab / Shift+Tab (siblings) done Tab renames the next layer while renaming
Resize handles: Shift keeps proportions, Alt from centre, constraints-aware done Alt shrinks too; past an edge flips (several layers mirror); groups and mixed rotations scale each layer along its own axes, keeping rotation and flip (no skew: children turned off a right angle are approximate); Cmd/Ctrl ignores a frame's constraints (transform_behaviour_tests)
Rotate just outside a corner; Shift in 15° steps done rotated handle box when layers share a rotation
Flip, rotate 90° done
Alt-drag duplicate done
Scale tool (K): handles about an anchor, live factor, panel done
Nudge 1 / Shift 10 (preference), Cmd+arrows resize done arrows reorder auto layout children
Smart guides: edges, centres, equal spacing (between two layers or continuing a row's gap, labelled), spacing labels, parent, layout grid, ruler guides done red, snap.rs; thresholds not yet compared with Figma's
Ctrl to suspend snapping while dragging (macOS) missing
Measure (Alt hover, Cmd+Alt nested, Shift+Alt padding/gaps) done labels never overlap
Pixel grid snapping, pixel preview, 2x preview done moves, resizes and new shapes land on whole pixels
Numeric fields: arithmetic, scrubbing by dragging the label, mixed values partial check scrub speed and Shift/Alt steps
Transform box at small sizes done a press inside a layer smaller than its handles moves it, the nearest handle wins, handles answer just outside and are hidden under 16 px on screen; cursors follow each handle and the box's rotation
Locked layers done selectable from the layers panel; no handles, not dragged with the rest of a selection
Keyboard box selection done F8 (select.area): a box around the selection or in the middle of the view; arrows move it, Shift+arrows size it, Enter selects like a marquee (Shift+Enter toggles, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter nested); our addition for keyboard-only users

Tools

Tool Status Notes
Move, hand (Space), zoom (hold Z, Alt out, drag area) done
Frame (presets panel, swap orientation), section, slice done
Rectangle, ellipse (arc handles and Design panel arc fields), polygon, star, line, arrow; Shift/Alt done
Pen: vector networks, branch, close, bend; pencil done pen pressure on Windows and from browser styluses only
Vector edit mode: bend, paint bucket, lasso, cut, eraser, transform box, point snapping, mirroring done
Shape builder (Shift+M) on fills, strokes and open paths; variable width (Shift+W), one side with Alt done
Boolean groups: clicked where the result is, double-click or Cmd/Ctrl-click into operands, live results while dragging or editing points, per-operand operations done
Text: point, auto height, fixed; caret, words, lines, IME done carets step over whole emoji and accented letters; CJK words by script run (no dictionary); vertical trim in Type settings; no spell check
Eyedropper (I) done
Comment (C), Shift+C to show/hide done local only
Text on a path (Figma Draw) done put on from the Design panel or text.onPath, not by clicking a path with the Text tool; the path is edited by resizing only
Stretch and scatter brushes (Figma Draw) done eight presets drawn in code; the Pencil's brush is set by tool.pencilBrush, not from the toolbar
Image crop handles done

Canvas

Item Status Notes
Pan/zoom: wheel, pinch, Space-drag, Shift+0/1/2, Cmd+0, +/- done
Rulers and guides (drag out, move, remove; rotated frames; frame guides) done
Frame labels (rotated, right-to-left), size badge done
Outline mode done Outlines, outlines for the selection, mask outlines, frame outlines
Slices shown on the canvas (View ▸ Slices) done dashed rectangles
Dragging a layer inside a group keeps it in the group done frames and auto layout take other drops
Frames and sections drawn around layers take those fully inside; sections never drop into frames done not in auto layout frames
Resizing a section leaves its contents in place done
Masks: what a mask hides doesn't take clicks; a mask group's box is the mask's done
Layout grids (Ctrl+G) done
Gamut warnings for Display P3 files done colour picker note; View ▸ Soft-proof sRGB stripes what sRGB can't show (the canvas itself is sRGB)
Gradient and padding/gap handles on the canvas done
Hover outline, selection colours, handle sizes done measured from UI3 screenshots
Cursors per tool and modifier partial not compared
Multiplayer cursors, cursor chat, spotlight missing

Accessibility (ours vs Figma's)

Item Status Notes
Screen-reader names, roles, values, states (AccessKit) done on desktop browser: eframe doesn't send the tree yet
Keyboard navigation: F6 regions, Tab within, focus ring done
Layers panel from the keyboard: arrows, F2 / Cmd+R rename (the row gets the keyboard back), Shift+F10 context menu; 10k-layer lists done revealing a layer, expanding, collapsing and arrow keys timed in cargo xtask bench
Reduced motion done system setting or preference
WCAG AA contrast of secondary and accent text done
Tested with VoiceOver, NVDA, Narrator, Orca missing human QA

Revision history

Date Change Summary
2026-10-11 minor Frames, groups, sections and masks: drawing a frame or section around layers takes them, sections stay out of frames, section resizing leaves contents in place, masked-out areas don't take clicks, a mask group's box follows the mask, X/Y of layers in groups are measured in the frame
2026-10-11 minor Layers panel keyboard: F2 renames (also from a row with the keyboard, which gets it back), Shift+F10 opens the context menu at the focused row or below the canvas selection, F8 draws a selection box the arrows move and size; stroke weights bind to variables side by side
2026-10-11 minor Selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes: Alt shrinks, groups and mixed rotations scale each layer along its own axes, several layers flip together, whole-pixel resizes, small layers move from inside, locked layers stay put, marquees from a top-level frame's background, equal spacing snapping, Cmd/Ctrl ignores constraints while resizing a frame
2026-10-11 minor Gamut warnings: the colour picker flags Display P3 colours outside sRGB; View ▸ Soft-proof sRGB stripes them on the canvas
2026-10-11 minor Several windows: File ▸ New window, Open in new window on a tab, a tab dragged off the strip; each window has its own tabs and panels and asks about unsaved changes when it closes
2026-10-11 minor Canvas fixes: boolean groups clicked where their result is, a layer dragged inside a group stays in it, View ▸ Frame outlines and View ▸ Slices draw
2026-10-11 minor Outline mode done: outlines for the selection (the selected layers draw as outlines, the rest normally) and mask outlines
2026-10-11 minor Design panel arc fields, live boolean editing (operands on the canvas, live results, per-operand operations), shape builder on strokes and open paths, one-sided widths (Alt-drag a width handle)
2026-10-10 major Created from the ROADMAP's look-and-feel and interaction items, the keymap and the canvas code