While the center was dragged out, the rays pointed at the pointer, as a
polygon's first corner does, and Shift put them back in their original
orientation. In the reference app they turn by a step for each update
of the drag as the pointer moves up or down, and Shift stops the turn
where it is.
Each update of the center drag in which the pointer's document y grows
now adds 0.1 radian (about 5.73°) to the rays' turn, one in which it
falls takes 0.1 radian away, and one at the same y leaves the turn as
it is. Shift held keeps the turn, and turning goes on from there once
Shift is let go. Space held moves the flare without turning the rays.
General › Constrain Angle no longer sets the turn under Shift.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The release that places the rings' end point applied the pointer's last
movement to the end point only, so with Space held the flare changed
shape instead of moving. The release now moves the center by that
movement as well. The progress doc says how Shift and General >
Constrain Angle set the rays' orientation.
The reference app's Flare tool rotates the rays as the center is dragged
out, Shift constrains them to their original orientation, and Space
held moves the shape being drawn. VectorCraft's Flare tool drew the
rays in one fixed orientation and ignored Shift and Space.
shape.flare takes rotation (degrees, clockwise), which turns the rays
about the center and leaves the halo, the center and the rings as they
are. While the center is dragged out, the rays turn with the pointer,
as a polygon's first corner does, and a drag straight up leaves them
unturned. Shift keeps them unturned, or turned by General › Constrain
Angle as a polygon drawn with Shift is. Space held during the center
drag or the drag that places the rings' end point moves the flare at
its current size, and the drag goes on from there when Space is let
go, as with the shape tools.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Selection tool's double-click on nothing (or on art outside the isolated group) leaves isolation mode; Direct Selection's did nothing there. It now does the same.
In typography and Illustrator, Shift+Enter inserts a soft return (forced
line break) rather than ending the paragraph. Text wraps to the next line
without applying paragraph-level spacing (space before/after, first-line
indents), list continuation lines keep their parent item without repeating
markers, and justified text does not stretch lines ending with a soft return.
- Forward active modifier keys for Enter in ui-egui shortcuts so the tool
detects Shift+Enter.
- Type tool inserts U+2028 (LINE SEPARATOR) on Shift+Enter.
- Text shaping and layout treat U+2028 as an invisible zero-advance control
character, breaking the line in point and area type.
- Paragraph spacing and list markers apply once per paragraph as intended.
The check of a selected object's masked art looked at its own place
only. A click goes down from the layer (or the isolated container) and
never reaches a Shaper group's original shapes outside Construction
mode, however deep the object lies in them; and below a layer whose
Preview is off it hits art in outline. A press inside such a path's
fill, or on a path in a Shaper group's hidden shapes, started a move.
The way down to the selected object is now checked as a click goes:
a Shaper group's part a click can't reach on it rules the object out,
and a Preview-off layer on it (below the isolated container) makes the
object count by its outline.
Tests also cover Shift with Direct and Group Selection (a marquee) and
an object a click hits over the masked art (it is selected).
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An image in a clipping mask, picked in the Layers panel, shows its
whole frame, but a press on the part the mask hides hit nothing: the
Selection, Direct Selection and Group Selection tools started a marquee
there, which dropped the selection, so the image could be dragged only
by the part that shows.
Such a press now grabs the selection by that art, as a press on its
visible part does: a drag moves the selected object (the image, not its
clip group) and a click keeps it selected. With nothing of it selected
there, or with Shift, a press there starts a marquee as before.
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While an opacity mask or a pattern is edited, a press on a selected Shaper
original shape now moves it when it is not the first selected object or
shares the selection with shapes of another Shaper Group. An object in
front of the Shaper Group at the pointer is selected instead.
While an opacity mask or a pattern was edited, a Shaper double-click
selected a Shaper Group's original shape without isolating the group's
original shapes. A Selection tool press on that shape then selected and
moved the whole Shaper Group over the art the group shows, and started
a marquee over a part of the shape the group does not show.
A press on the selected original shape now holds it for a move, and
the pointer shows the move cursor over it.
While an opacity mask or a pattern was edited, a Shaper scribble and
Object › Shaper › Release and Expand ended isolation, and a Shaper
double-click on a Shaper Group isolated the group's original shapes.
Each replaced the editing layer's isolation while the document stayed
in mask or pattern editing. A click on the Shaper Group's mode widget
did the same through object.isolate.
A scribble, Release and Expand now keep the editing layer isolated in
these modes, and end isolation as before outside them. A double-click
with Shaper selects the original shape under the pointer without
isolating the group's original shapes, and the mode widget does not
show while a mask or a pattern is edited.
Docs: docs/shaper.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Live Paint Selection tool acted only on the press, so a drag
selected at most the one face or edge under the pointer. The reference
app selects every face and edge a marquee touches, partly enclosed ones
included, and a Shift-drag adds them to the selection or removes them.
A drag of 3 pixels or more now draws a marquee. On release, select.set
selects the faces and edges it touches, or select.none runs when it
touches none. With Shift held at the press, select.toggle runs with
what it touches, and nothing runs when it touches none. A face that holds the whole marquee counts. Select Fills off
leaves faces out, and Select Strokes off leaves edges out.
A click now changes the selection on release instead of on the press,
so Escape between the press and the release, which also removes the
marquee, leaves the selection as it was. The tool no longer highlights
or selects the faces and edges of a Live Paint group that is locked, on
a locked layer or on a locked artboard, or that is outside the isolated
art in isolation mode.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
After a click picked the first object with the Blend tool, Escape did
nothing: the pick stayed, and the next click on another object blended
the two. After a blend was made, Escape did not stop the next click
adding to it either.
Escape now drops the object picked first and stops the next click
adding to the blend just made, as a click on empty canvas does, so the
next click picks a new first object. The document and the selection
stay as they are, and no undo step is added.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Escape during a Selection tool move or Alt-drag copy, a bounding-box
scale or rotation, a marquee, or a drag of a corner widget, a pie widget
or the brackets of type on a path did nothing, and the release then
applied the drag. Only a ruler guide, mirror axis or grid repeat drag
and the loaded text took Escape.
Escape in any of these drags now cancels it, the way Direct Selection
cancels its drags: the art returns to its state at the press, an
Alt-drag leaves no copy, no undo step is added, and the release does
nothing.
Outside a drag Escape works as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Character Rotation turned a glyph's baseline shift and scaling with the glyph, and the Skew path effect slants a glyph's height away from the path's normal, so the x-height guide moved off the glyphs. Each positioned glyph now carries the transform that removes its Character Rotation (PositionedGlyph::unturned), and the guide goes through the glyph's x-height point placed without it, measured across the baseline. Snap to Glyph also takes Smart Guides being on in the tools, as View › Snap to Glyph already does in the engine.
With View › Snap to Glyph and Smart Guides on, a point drawn near a single
line of live type now also lands on the anchor points of its glyphs and lines
up with its x-height (raised or lowered by Baseline Shift) and with the edges
of each character's advance width along the baseline (proximity guides). In
rotated type the baseline, x-height and proximity guides run at the type's
angle, and type of one glyph also has angular guides along the glyph's slanted
straight segments; a segment that Shift keeps to its angle slides onto them.
A paragraph shows glyph bounds only, so its baselines are no longer guides.
FontFace::x_height gives a face's x-height in font units.
The reference app keeps the inner radius of a star constant when Ctrl
or Command is held after the drag starts. VectorCraft's Star tool took
the held radius from the first drag event that carried the key, using
that event's outer radius. The canvas sends a drag only once the
pointer moves, so a key pressed with the pointer still scaled the
inner radius with the next move before holding it.
Ctrl/Cmd now holds the inner radius the star showed at the last drag
position before the key went down, with Alt's straight shoulders when
Alt was held. A new press and Escape clear the held radius. Before,
after a drag canceled with Escape, the next star took the canceled
star's inner radius when Ctrl/Cmd went down before that star's first
drag event.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
Escape did not cancel a drag with the Anchor Point, Mesh, Shape Builder
and Measure tools, or a Direct Selection drag of a mesh point, a corner
widget or the brackets of type on a path: the drag went on until the
mouse was released. Escape cancels every other Direct Selection drag
and a drag with the Free Transform, Rotate, Reflect, Scale, Shear and
Gradient tools.
Escape now cancels an Anchor Point drag, a Mesh tool drag of a mesh
point or handle, and a Direct Selection drag of a mesh point or handle,
a corner widget or the brackets of type on a path. The art goes back to
how the press found it, no undo step is added, and the rest of the drag
and the release send nothing. Escape during a Shape Builder drag ends
it, so the release merges and deletes nothing; the tool takes Escape
only during the drag. Escape during a Measure tool drag ends it and
brings back the measurement shown before the press. Escape after an
Anchor Point or Direct Selection press that has not moved yet drops the
press. Otherwise, outside a drag, Escape does what it did before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Escape did not cancel a drag with the Puppet Warp, Perspective Grid,
Perspective Selection and Liquify tools: the drag went on until the
mouse was released. Escape cancels a drag with the Direct Selection,
Gradient and Artboard tools.
Escape now cancels a Puppet Warp pin drag or turn, a Perspective Grid
handle or plane widget drag, a Perspective Selection move, resize or
plane widget drag, and a Liquify stroke. The art and the grid go back
to how they were when the drag began, the undo history does not
change, and the rest of the drag and the release send nothing. Puppet
Warp selects again the pins that were selected before the press.
During a Liquify Alt-drag that sizes the brush, Escape puts the brush
size back; the tool claims Escape only then. Escape during a
Perspective Selection press that has not moved past the drag threshold
ends the press, so moving on does not start a move. Otherwise, outside
a drag, Escape does what it did before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Type tool heard of Undo and Redo only when they ran as top-level
commands. As steps of command.batch, they left the caret where it was,
and the tool took the batch for an outside edit. Session::execute now
tells the active tool about each nested edit.undo and edit.redo.
command.batch also tells the tool when it begins, ends or rolls back.
The Type tool keeps its caret and its edit records at the start of each
batch and puts them back when a failed batch rolls the documents back.
While the Type tool edits type, Edit > Undo and Redo (the menu, the
keyboard, the History panel and MCP all run edit.undo and edit.redo)
left the caret at its byte offset, clamped to the text. Typing "abc"
before "XYZ" and pressing Undo left the caret after "XYZ".
The engine now tells the active tool about edit.undo and edit.redo
before it finishes the command. The Type tool keeps the edited text and
a list of the steps that changed it, and puts the caret, with nothing
selected, at the end of the span the step changed: where typed text
began after its Undo, after restored text after the Undo of a deletion,
and after retyped text after Redo. For the steps the tool made, it keeps
where the span ended, so text that repeats the characters next to it
puts the caret at the right end. A step that changes no characters,
such as a formatting change, leaves the caret and the selection as they
are. Typed lists keep their caret positions.
A click with the Scissors tool cut the path whether or not Alt was
held, and the cursor stayed the Scissors cursor. The reference app's
shortcut list has "Switch Scissors tool to Add Anchor Point tool" on
Alt (Option).
While Alt is held, a click with the Scissors tool now does what a click
with the Add Anchor Point tool does: on a segment it adds an anchor
point with path.insertAnchor in one undo step, and the path is not cut.
The cursor is the Add Anchor Point tool's while Alt is held. When Alt
is let go, the cursor is the Scissors again and a click cuts.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, crates/tools/src/cursors.toml.
The reference app's shortcut list switches between its Type tools with
Shift and with Alt (Option). VectorCraft's Type tools had no such switch.
While no type is being edited, a press with Shift held makes new type
with the chosen tool's horizontal or vertical counterpart: Type and
Vertical Type, Area Type and Vertical Area Type, Type on a Path and
Vertical Type on a Path. A press with Alt held makes it with Type on a
Path in place of Area Type, or the reverse, in the same writing
direction. With both keys held, both switch. The keys held when the
press starts are the ones that count. The pointer shows the tool the
press acts as, and the chosen tool stays selected. While type is being
edited, Shift and Alt work as they did.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
With the Width tool, Escape did not deselect the selected width points:
they stayed selected, Delete still removed them, and in isolation mode
the same Escape left isolation mode. The reference app's shortcut list
gives Esc for deselecting a width point.
Escape now deselects the Width tool's selected width points. The path,
its widths and the undo history do not change, and no command is sent.
While width points are selected the tool takes Escape, so that Escape
does not also leave isolation mode. With no width point selected, and
during a drag, Escape does what it did before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The reference app switches an arc between open and closed with C,
flips it with F and changes its angle with Up/Down while it is dragged
out. VectorCraft's Arc tool ignored these keys during a drag.
While an arc is dragged out, C now switches it between an open and a
closed path, F switches its base between the X and Y axes in the same
box, and Up/Down raise and lower its slope by 10 within -100 to 100.
Each press switches once. The arc drawn on release uses the new values,
and they stay as the Arc tool's options. With nothing dragged, C and F
are shortcuts as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A release that arrives at a new position with no drag before it now counts
as movement, so Alt pressed at that moment no longer switches the stroke
to the Smooth tool.
Alt switched a Blob Brush stroke to the Smooth tool while the stroke held fewer than two
points, so a drag that had moved less than the sampling tolerance still switched when Alt
went down. The tool now records whether the pointer has moved from the press point at all.
A release with Alt held, after a press without Alt and no movement, also smooths instead of
painting a dot, matching the Smooth cursor shown before it.
The reference app switches the Blob Brush to the Smooth tool while Alt
(Option) is held. In VectorCraft an Alt drag with the Blob Brush painted
a blob like any other drag.
With Alt held at the press, or pressed before the drag has moved, the
Blob Brush shows the Smooth tool's cursor and a thin line without the
length label, and the release smooths the selected paths under the
drag with path.smoothRegion, as the Pencil does when Alt key toggles to
Smooth Tool is on. Shift does not constrain a smoothing drag, a stroke
that has moved keeps painting when Alt goes down, and with nothing
selected the release changes no path.
Choosing another tool during a Pencil smoothing drag no longer leaves
the Pencil showing the Smooth tool's cursor when it is chosen again.
deactivate now clears the smoothing state, for the Blob Brush too.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
With "Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool" on, an Alt drag with the Pencil
smoothed within the Pencil's "Edit selected paths" Within distance. At
0, which turns editing off, it smoothed nothing. It now smooths within
the Smooth tool's 12 px radius at every Within value.
Deleting a point of a finished path with the Curvature tool sent
path.removeAnchor, which refits the two segments that met at the point so
one curve follows them. The path kept the bend of the deleted point
instead of curving through the points that remain.
The tool now sends path.removeAnchor with curvature: true, which uses the
new curvature_remove. Each smooth neighbor takes new handles from its new
neighbors, and an end beside one of them takes its end handle again. A
corner neighbor keeps its handle directions, and its handle on the new
segment scales with the segment's chord. With two points left, the points
that curve lose their handles. Object > Path > Remove Anchor Points and
the Delete Anchor Point tool still refit the curve.
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