Six fixes from a review of the recorder, each with a regression test (four
fail against the old recorder; the other two bound work that grew with the
input):
- A step that names another sheet with its sheet parameter (cell.set and
about fifty other commands) was tokenized as if on the input's sheet, so a
recorded cell.set {sheet: Two, cell: C4} ran on Two at the input's
relative place. Such a step keeps its references, like a sheet-qualified
one.
- Inlining recorded runs of other macros and scripts stops at the macro's
step limit and counts the rest in dropped, instead of expanding every run
first (a thousand runs of a long macro made millions of steps).
- macro.record {cancel: true} ends a recording without saving it: the way
out of a recording whose macro is too large for the workbook, which could
neither be saved nor ended.
- Formula tokenization reads each reference in the formula and matches it,
instead of listing every column and row of the example (an example as
large as a sheet made a million candidates per formula).
- A selection of several areas keeps its active cell as it is; a token for
the active cell alone put it outside the areas on playback.
- Steps recorded in another workbook are counted in dropped.
Six fixes from a review of the resolver, each with a regression test that
fails without it:
- A bare Row or Column under a general reference key (to, from, at, area,
source, target, destination, location) stays text: Change Spelling's
replacement word and a pivot field's area were being rewritten into the
current row's A1 range. Row.col(2), {{Row}} and {"$ref": "Row"} still
resolve there, and the bare word still resolves under cell and range keys.
- {{{{ in a string is a literal {{, so text that needs the braces can be
written; an unknown token is still an error.
- Input.data on a range that is only a header row, and Name: of a table
with no data rows, are refused instead of reading the header.
- below(0), below(-3) and right(0) are refused like resize(0, 1) is, instead
of becoming 1.
- A defined name on a sheet whose name holds a dollar sign resolves: the
dollar anchors are stripped from the reference part only.
- quote_sheet is the engine's one rule (gridcraft_core::quote_sheet), which
quotes a sheet named like a cell reference, an R1C1 token or a boolean and
leaves a period unquoted.
docs/macros.md says which keys take a bare token and how to write a literal
brace.
A macro could declare an input called Q1, AB12 or Sum1, and a step written
with plain A1 text, as a recorded one is, would then resolve to the input's
range instead of the cell. check_limits refuses such names; the docs say so.
Regression test.
The architecture note named formulas and validation only; it now lists the
Paste Special kinds and linked pastes that write formulas, and the kinds that
carry nothing.
The inputs paragraph described how a run binds inputs and the message it
shows, which the runner adds in a later pull request. It now says what the
declaration is for and that this version stores and checks it.
The panic guard restored the workbook and selection but not the history, so
a nested edit made before the panic left a no-op undo step and the redo
history it had cleared stayed lost. The guard now truncates the steps made
during the command and puts the redo history back. Regression test, and the
architecture note says what the guard restores.
Typed entry, VALUE and arithmetic now read $(1,234), $ (5) and (5)% as
negative numbers, as Excel 365 does. Parentheses no longer nest: (-5),
((5)), $5% and dates in parentheses stay text. This changes main's
((100)) from 100 to text; the no-recursion guard from #2180 is kept and
its test now asserts the new result.
The header and the revision row said 2026-10-11, older than the row above them. The document trust paragraph now says how DocState::trust (provenance) differs from DocState::scripts_trusted (per-session consent for stored scripts, #2178).
A string a catalog lacks shows in English. Coverage, key-parity and
per-language count tests and tests of one language's exact wording are
removed; UI wiring tests take their expected text from the catalog.
cargo xtask i18n-report lists the missing strings per language and
always passes; cargo xtask ci runs it first.
* CI: dev builds keep line tables only
* CI: one integration-test binary per crate
* CI: xtask runs tests with nextest, doctests apart, --keep-going on clippy and wasm
cargo xtask test runs the workspace tests (--lib --bins --tests) with cargo-nextest when it is installed, else cargo test, then the doctests. cargo xtask ci uses the same two steps.
* CI: docs name cargo xtask test
* CI: agent guides name the moved fuzz test
* CI: tests added on main join their crate's test binary
With row 1 frozen, Page Up could land on A1, which is always on screen, while the scrolled rows
stayed a page down (row 10, Page Down, Page Up, Page Up ends on row 1 with rows 2-9 hidden). The
same held for Ctrl+Up into frozen rows and Ctrl+Left / Alt+Page Up into frozen columns.
Arrow and paging keys now record the cell they moved from (`GridState::reveal_from`). When such a
move goes from the scrolled rows (columns) into the frozen ones, the scrolled area goes back to
its top (left). Other reveals (clicks, Find, Go To, Name Box, Undo, the control channel, formula
pointing) leave it unset and keep the view where the user scrolled it.
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- The workbook's active sheet is an atomic set in place (Workbook::active_sheet /
set_active_sheet), so a window swap or sheet switch never clones the
Arc<Workbook> or marks it dirty. Selections already live in DocState and the
window views. Save records the sheet of the most recently active window.
- A dialog taken out of its window while it runs goes back to that window when
a command run from it switched windows (dialogs::show, ui.dialog.confirm).
- view.arrangeAll {arrange?: tiled|horizontal|vertical|cascade, activeWorkbook?}
returns the visible windows, active first; the desktop moves and sizes the
native windows over the main window's monitor. New Window and Arrange All
buttons on the View ribbon; Arrange Windows dialog.
- Docs: ui-parity, hardware-parity, gaps #20, target-app-parity, ROADMAP.
- 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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Each engine window is drawn in its own native window through craft-window's
immediate-viewport driver (desktop only; the web app keeps one window). The
root viewport shows one window and adopts another when its window closes.
- WindowUi: the cell draft, text-box draft, dialog, Backstage, message,
toast, notice, grid state, name box, key tips, selected chart, Tab run and
edit mode are per window. SheetApp's fields hold the active window's; the
others are parked and swapped in when a window is drawn or activated, and
after any command that switched windows.
- Session::show_window makes a window current for drawing without counting
as an activation.
- The ribbon in each window acts on it; menu bar commands and scripts go to
the window focused last. Leaving a window enters its draft as Enter would.
- A window's close button runs window.close: one of several windows on a
workbook closes without asking, a workbook's last asks when unsaved.
SheetApp::request_quit (macOS Quit item, Dock quit) asks about each unsaved
workbook in its window; Cancel stops. Save Changes answers moved to
SheetApp::answer_save_changes.
- The last window closed quits on Windows and Linux; macOS hides the root
and keeps running until New or Open.
- Fonts are bound for every open workbook, since each may be showing.
craft-window is pinned to the aiongg/craft-libs window-list branch until it
merges into storytold/craft-libs.
Session keeps a window list (stable ids, per-window selection, active sheet
and per-sheet selections swapped into the workbook without dirtying it)
in place of the index-based hidden list and the copying New Window.
Titles read Name:1 / Name:2 for a workbook with several windows.
File > Close closes one window of several; window.close, window.list and
window ids for window.activate, view.switchWindows, view.hideWindow and
view.unhideWindow. Control channel and MCP tools take window/doc ids;
scroll positions and cell drafts belong to their window.
With headings hidden too, a level button sat across the empty column band
at the grid's top edge, so a click there still ran it. Outline hit testing
now stops when both bands are empty. The parity doc no longer lists Ctrl+8
as missing.
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A sheet can hide its outline's level buttons and brackets while keeping
the outline (Excel's Ctrl+8, saved as showOutlineSymbols="0"). It wasn't
modelled, so such sheets showed a wide outline band Excel doesn't.
- model: Sheet::show_outline_symbols (default on, also for older JSON).
- xlsx: read and written on the sheet view.
- engine: view.showOutlineSymbols {on?} (Ctrl+8), undoable.
- ui: no outline bands while it's off.
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A number too wide for its column is drawn as ####. With a repeat fill
(`*` in the format, as in the Accounting format) the fill step then
rebuilt the text from the formatted value, so it overflowed and, being
right-aligned, lost its leading digits: 2,509.00 CHF in a narrow column
was drawn as "509.00 CHF". The fill now leaves #### alone.
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Stopping a recording saved the macro with a nested macro.save while a debugged run's undo group could be open on the same workbook. Stopping the run without keeping its changes then deleted the macro that macro.record had reported as saved. Stopping now fails with "Finish or stop the macro first" under macro.record before anything changes, and the recording goes on, as when a save fails for another reason, so stopping again after the run ends saves it.
A recording keeps up to 100,000 commands, and inlined macro and script runs can add more, but a macro holds at most 10,000 steps. Stopping truncated the converted steps to that limit without saying so: dropped counted only the recorder's own overflow, so a 10,005-step recording saved a 10,000-step macro and reported nothing missing. The steps cut at the macro limit are now added to dropped.
Stopping a recording with a name that a macro already has (in any case) saved over that macro's
steps, inputs and description, with only Undo to get them back. A taken name now gets a suffix
("Tidy (2)"), and the save passes replace: false as a backstop.
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