The Insert tab gains Button, Slider and Spin Button beside Cell
Controls › Checkbox, which is unchanged. Each arms placement: a drag on
the grid draws the control at that size (a tall drag makes a vertical
slider), a click places it at its default size, and Escape disarms. Key
tips (N B U, N S L, N S B) place one at the active cell. A new button
opens Assign Action, as Excel opens Assign Macro.
form_controls.rs draws the controls in the sheet tokens, so they look
the same in both themes: buttons with hover and pressed states, sliders
with a track, a filled part and a thumb (and the value beside the thumb
while it is dragged), spin buttons with two arrows, stacked or side by
side. A plain click works a control: dragging the thumb, clicking the
track (a page), clicking or holding an arrow (it repeats after 0.4 s),
pressing a button (it runs on release over it). A drag or a hold is one
undo step. The control last worked takes the arrows, Page Up and Page
Down, Home and End, and Space or Enter for a button. Ctrl or Cmd+click
or a right-click selects a control to move or resize it; a right-click
opens the object menu, which for a control adds Edit Text and Assign
Action (buttons) and Format Control before Delete.
Double-clicking a selected control opens its editor. On a right-to-left
sheet a control moves as a whole and works where it is drawn.
Assign Action runs a macro (from the list or typed, on the selection or
a fixed range, with an optional output cell) or a command (searched
among those a macro may run, with JSON parameters). Format Control edits
the value, limits, incremental and page change, cell link, orientation,
name and the locked and print flags, checking the same rules as the
engine. A button whose action needs approval, or whose macro would write
over data, asks in a prompt whose buttons press it again with the
answer.
New theme tokens (thumb, hover, pressed, fill, focus ring) are in the
contrast test; Button, Slider and Spin icons are drawn in code; the new
labels are translated in every interface language. The catalog gains
Developer › Controls (280 / 296).
- automate.trustScripts: only a missing `trusted` defaults to true; a
non-boolean value is an error and leaves the workbook untrusted.
- The refusal message points at Trust Scripts in View > Macros (Alt+F8)
and at automate.trustScripts.
- Catalog row for automate.trustScripts; parity checklist regenerated.
- Script steps run inside an io::ScriptSandbox (thread-local) so
read_file/write_file refuse whatever the parameter is called, and a
step that raises OpenUrl is dropped and stops the script. The id/param
deny list stays as the up-front refusal.
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Commands: macro.list, macro.get, macro.save (a macro object or its
fields; replace defaults to true), macro.delete, macro.rename and
macro.record, beside macro.run, macro.check and macro.debug. Saving,
renaming and deleting are undoable. The catalog gains View › Macros ›
Record Macro (parity 275 / 291).
The recorder builds on the recording buffer of top-level commands, so
nested commands are never recorded twice and trimming the journal loses
nothing. When it stops, commands a macro may not run are left out and
listed; a macro run while recording is replaced by its steps when it
has no inputs, and an Automate script run by the script's steps;
sheet.activate and selection.set steps are added where the sheet or
selection changed between commands without one, and runs of them
collapse to the last. With relative references (the default) the
selection when recording started is the example input: references in
and near it become tokens (Input.col(2), Input.rows(2..),
Input.col(2).below, Input.row(4).right, Input.cell(r,c)), exact
references in formulas become {{...}}, and the input's width, header
and column types are inferred from the example. A recording replayed on
a longer block of data writes in the matching places.
A toggle such as Bold is recorded with the state it set ("on": true),
as Excel records Bold = True, so a replay sets it instead of flipping
it again.
Automate scripts are unchanged: automate.* keep their commands,
parameters, storage and results, and View › Macros still lists the
scripts and a preserved VBA project.
Progress docs per craftrules standards/progress-docs.md: target-app parity, gaps, roadmap with alpha gate, readiness by audience (full / mainstream / essentials) with Opus 5.5 hours, and feature, format, hardware, UI and localization parity docs.
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