layer.new, layer.selectAll, layer.target, layer.move, layer.template,
layer.pasteRemembersLayers and layer.releaseToLayers read their on/off
params with bool_or or as_bool, which falls back to a default for a
value that is not true or false. layer.new {"top": "true"} added the
layer above the current one instead of on top, layer.template
{"on": "false"} and layer.pasteRemembersLayers {"on": "false"} turned
the option on when it was off, layer.move {"copy": "true"} moved the
rows instead of copying them, layer.selectAll and layer.target with
"add": "true" replaced the selection, and layer.releaseToLayers
{"build": "true"} released the objects without building up copies.
These commands now fail with "`<key>` must be true or false" for a
value that is not true, false or null, as the artboard and Object menu
commands do, and leave the document, the selection, the highlighted
rows and the undo history as they were. layer.newSublayer, which takes
layer.new's options, refuses such a top too. A null is read as a key
left out.
docs/mcp.md also lists showCenterMark, showCrossHairs and
showVideoSafeAreas among the keys artboard.new and artboard.setProps
refuse in this way, as they already did.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
artboard.setProps refused an x, y, width or height given as text, but
artboard.new read such a value as the key left out: {"x": "10"} added
an artboard at the default position and recorded an undo step. Both
commands read a name that is not a string, such as 5, as no name, so
artboard.new gave the default name and artboard.setProps kept the old
one.
artboard.new now refuses an x, y, width or height that is not a number
with "`<key>` must be a number, not <value>", the message
artboard.setProps gives, and both commands refuse such a name with
"`name` must be a string", for each entry of artboard.setProps'
artboards too. They refuse it before they change anything. A null is
still read as the key left out.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Found while testing crates/engine/src/cmd/create.rs:584 (dividers)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review follow-ups:
- items_per_target maps each requested row on its own. Rows deleted or
duplicated together, one shared and one not, fell back to the literal
indices in every object, so the other objects could lose the wrong
items. The first object takes its own rows; each other object takes
its copies of the shared ones only.
- effect.dialog takes `aligned` (the panel passes it on a mixed
selection's shared effect row), and its OK and preview run
effect.setParams with it, so the dialog edits each object's own copy
of the effect instead of the first object's index in every object.
Tests: removing a shared stroke with an unshared fill leaves the other
object's fills; an aligned dialog's command carries `aligned`.
With several objects selected whose appearances differ in anything (two
circles whose fills differ but whose stroke and effect are the same),
the Appearance panel showed only "Mixed Appearances": no stroke, effect
or opacity row, so attributes the objects share couldn't be edited
together. It now lists what they share, as the issue describes:
- `vectorcraft_doc::appearance::SharedStack` (with `align`, a stacking-
order longest-common-subsequence match) gives the fills, strokes and
object-level effects every object has an equal copy of, and where each
is in every object's own stack.
- The panel's object row names the objects' common kind ("Path",
"Ellipse"; "Mixed Objects" only when kinds differ, as the Control bar
does), with an italic "Mixed Appearances" row under it when they
differ, then only the shared rows with their usual controls. The
Opacity row reads "Mixed" when opacity or blend mode differ (an edit
sets them all). The object row shows no fill chip when the fills
differ. Rows aren't dragged in a mixed selection: where a row would go
in each of several different stacks isn't one place.
- The engine maps a shared row to each object's own item: the active
item (a row of the first selected object's stack) always does, so the
Color, Stroke and Transparency panels edit every object's matching
item, and the item and effect commands do with `aligned: true`
(appearance.setItem / removeItem / duplicateItem, effect.remove /
duplicate / setParams / lightingPreset, transparency.set), each as
one undo step. moveItem and effect.move refuse aligned rows of
differing stacks. Without `aligned`, explicit indices keep their
meaning for single objects and scripts.
- "Mixed" is added to every catalog.
Tests: the shared stack of the issue's case, of a stroke at another
index, of nothing alike and of equal stacks, and that matches never
cross; editing the shared stroke edits both strokes (at index 1 and 2)
in one undo step that restores both, also through stroke.set on the
active row; removing a shared effect and adding a fill reach both, and
reordering differing stacks is refused; the panel lists kind, note,
Stroke, Feather and Opacity, not Fill, the full stack for alike objects
and "Mixed Objects" for a path and type. The existing object-row test
now expects the kind for two rectangles and the shared rows when their
opacity differs.
Found while testing crates/engine/src/cmd/create.rs:344 (polygon) and :358 (star; shape.spiral `segments` at :507 reads the same way)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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