Double-clicking the Live Paint Bucket did nothing, and the tool always
filled on a click, stroked on Shift-click and highlighted in red at
4 px. It now opens Live Paint Bucket Options with Paint Fills, Paint
Strokes, Highlight, Color and Width.
- Paint Fills (on) and Paint Strokes (off) set what a click paints.
With Paint Strokes alone, a click strokes the edge within 4 px of the
pointer. With both on, a click strokes an edge within 4 px and
otherwise fills the face. With both off, a click paints nothing.
- Shift switches Paint Fills alone to Paint Strokes alone and back, and
switches both to Paint Fills alone. With the defaults, Shift-click
strokes the edge as before.
- Highlight turns the outline of the face or edge under the pointer on
or off; Color (a layer color or a custom color) and Width (1 to 20 px)
set it. With Paint Strokes alone, a selection of ordinary paths no
longer highlights a region, since a click there paints nothing.
- The options are tool options (tool.setOption {tool:
"livePaintBucket"}): they last across tool switches and are saved
with the preferences.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Character panel menu > Standard Vertical Roman Alignment, with Show East
Asian Options, is now a check item. It sets a new character attribute,
`standardVerticalRoman` (text.setFormat, text.setRangeStyle), off by
default and saved only when on. In vertical type the marked Latin
letters, digits and other characters that would lie on their side stand
upright one below the other, each in its upright cell. Spaces keep their
width and tate-chu-yoko blocks stay across the column. Horizontal type
keeps the mark and does not change. A combining mark shaped as its own
glyph turns with its letter, in Latin and CJK upright type alike.
Character Style Options labels the Character Alignment row "Character
Alignment" and gives Standard Vertical Roman Alignment its own checkbox.
Reset Panel turns the attribute off. PDF and SVG export place the glyphs
from the layout and need no change.
symbol.delete {names} expands every instance of the named symbols,
round by round, before it removes any definition, so a symbol and the
one placed inside it delete alike in either order. The Symbols panel's
picks belong to the document they were made in, and a single picked
symbol is deleted only while symbol.unused still lists it.
symbol.unused lists the symbols nothing places: instances in the art
(opacity masks included), graph designs, pattern tiles and brush art
count, and so do instances in a used symbol's art. The Symbols panel
menu's Select All Unused shows them selected, and Delete Symbol asks
once and deletes those still unused in one undo step
(symbol.delete {names}).
The status bar's messages for relinked, replaced, updated and embedded
images, broken links, linked files that can't be read or changed on
disk, images that can't be decoded, added and unavailable fonts, copied
CSS, downloads and exports with notes read "1 image(s)" and similar.
They now say "1 image" and "2 images", and every catalog translates
both through @msgplural rows in the language's plural forms, as the
Package status does.
- i18n::msg_n writes such a message in English and fills its
placeholders in one pass; the status bar's translation fills them in
one pass too, so a path or name that holds "{n}" text stays whole.
- The old "(s)" @msg rows are replaced in all 26 catalogs, with new
rows for Replaced and Break Link.
- Sites: dialogs/missing_links.rs, dialogs/missing_fonts.rs,
app/links.rs, panels/css_properties.rs, dialogs/find_links.rs,
panels/links.rs, place.rs, canvas.rs, io/export.rs and
dialogs/save_for_web.rs.
The backdrop behind a modal dialog took clicks with Sense::click(), which
egui makes focusable, so Tab stopped on it. It now senses clicks without
taking the keyboard focus.
The Tab tests now check that Tab reaches a known control in each region
instead of only that some widget took the focus: the title bar's three
caption buttons, a control inside each dialog, a Tools panel button and a
floating strip's Put back in the toolbar button, and the isolation bar's
back button. The dialog test also checks that Tab skips the backdrop.
Each action set now has an id of its own, assigned when the set is made
(Default Actions, New Set, Begin Recording on an empty panel) and when it
is loaded from the saved preferences. The id is not saved.
The question Delete Selection asks about sets holds their ids, and
ui.actionSet.delete takes ids in place of all: OK deletes the asked sets
wherever they are now, and deletes nothing when one of them no longer
exists. Before, the question matched sets by the list of names, so with
two sets of the same name, or a new set made under the asked one's name
while the question was open, OK could delete a set it did not ask about.
ui.actionSet.delete runs while a dialog is open, from the control channel or MCP. An open
Set Options or Batch dialog for a deleted set now closes, and one for a later set has its set
index lowered so that OK renames or batches the same set.
Recolor Artwork opened with Preserve White and Black on and Grays off
every time, so clearing them had to be repeated on each use. OK on art
now keeps the three checkboxes in the UI state (recolor_preserve, saved
with the other remembered dialog fields), and the dialog opens with
them. Cancel leaves them as the last OK set them.
Double-clicking the Objects on Path tool opens Objects on Path Tool
Options: a nine-point Pivot grid, a Rotate field, Reset (the center and
0) and Save. Save sets the tool's options, which last across tool
switches and are saved with the preferences. The tool sends them with
each attach, and object.objectsOnPath.attach without pivot or rotate
uses them, so they apply to the objects attached next; groups attached
before keep theirs.
Characters get a language (CharStyle::language, a BCP 47 tag of one of
Document Setup's languages; none for the default, English: USA, saved
only when set). The shaper sets it on the HarfRust buffer, so fonts use
their language forms (OpenType locl): Turkish keeps fi apart and the dot
on its i. Runs in different languages are shaped apart. New type takes
the document's language.
Regions that only the pointer uses were made with Sense::drag() or
Sense::click_and_drag(), which egui makes focusable, so Tab stopped on
each of them and no key acted there. They now sense drags (and clicks
where they use them) without taking the keyboard focus: the custom
title bar's background and the window's resize zones, the band that
moves a dialog, the Tools panel's grip, a flyout's and a floating
strip's tear-off bar, the isolation bar's background, and the rulers
and their origin box. Their pointer behavior is unchanged, and the grip
and tear-off bars keep their screen-reader names.
Each region has a test that tabs through its UI and fails without the
change.
A package status with a note, such as "Packaged 1 file in /out/card (draft) (fonts not copied: Mono)", was translated after a language switch as if the folder ended at its first " (", so German showed "1 Datei in /out/card verpackt (draft) ...". The English status now puts the note before the folder ("Packaged 1 file (fonts not copied: Mono) in /out/card (draft)"), and each catalog's @msgplural row for it reads the folder as the rest of the line after ") in ".
The package status now says "file" or "files", and the catalogs' `@msg`
rows for it still matched only the old "file(s)" text, so a status
written in English stayed in English after a switch to another
language.
- Catalogs take a new `@msgplural` row: the English one|other forms as
the source and the language's plural forms as the translation. The
`{n}` value picks the form, so Czech shows "Zabaleny 3 soubory" for 3
files and "Zabaleno 5 souborů" for 5.
- Every catalog replaces its four package status rows with `@msgplural`
rows. The row for a status with a note finds the note by its opening
parenthesis, so a folder name with spaces stays whole.
- `package_status` builds the status line for the folder and the web
download.
The Package status and question, the missing-links note, the Missing Fonts
and Find Linked Files search counts, the modified-links questions, Apply to
All, and the CSS Properties panel's notes no longer use a fixed "(s)" or
plural template. They use the plural rows of each catalog, so "1 linked file
not found" and Czech "Nenalezeny 2 propojené soubory" read correctly.
The searched line is built from two plural phrases, "{n} folder" and
"{n} file", in a "{folders} and {files} searched" frame. Package rows that
joined the note to the folder without a space now keep the space.
The Batch dialog has a File Name choice for a Data Sets source, starting
with File + Number (`source001`), as well as File + Data Set Name
(`source_Alpha`) and Data Set Name (`Alpha`). `action.batch` takes it as
`datasetFileNaming`; a call without it keeps File + Data Set Name, and a
folder source ignores it. An unknown value is an error.
A data set output whose name already exists in the destination folder
now takes the next free `-2`, `-3` suffix instead of replacing the file,
and a Windows device name under Data Set Name gets a trailing `-`.
A menu under each of the five tiles in Pattern Brush Options lists None,
Original and the document's pattern swatches; the corner menus keep the
four automatic corners. A swatch choice copies the swatch's whole art and
its tile frame into the brush, so the brush keeps drawing after the swatch
is deleted, and the menu then shows that art as Original. Side cannot be
None: OK shows "You must choose a side pattern." and keeps the dialog open.
brush.options takes side_tile, outer_corner_tile, inner_corner_tile,
start_tile and end_tile (a pattern name, none, original, the corner auto
ids, or {"pattern": name} for a swatch named like one of those words), and
rejects side_tile "none" and unknown names before editing.
The question records the document it was opened for. If another document has become the active one by the time it is confirmed, it closes as Cancel does.
The question for unused brushes checks again when Yes is chosen. If a stroke uses one of the brushes by then, the dialog asks with Remove Strokes and Cancel instead of deleting.
The dialog offers Remove Strokes and Cancel, so the question asks only about taking the brushes off the strokes. Both questions are reworded in every catalog.
The question for brushes no stroke uses reads "Delete the brush selection?" with Yes and No, from the bottom button and the panel menu, and Alt-click (Option-click on macOS) on the button still deletes them without asking. When a stroke uses one of the brushes, the button, Alt-click and the menu item ask with Remove Strokes and Cancel; Remove Strokes deletes the brushes and the strokes that used them become plain strokes.
brush.unused also counts the tile that pattern editing's Cancel puts back, which brush.delete already clears, so the panel asks the in-use question for a brush only that tile uses.
The Symbols panel's Delete Symbol button and menu item now ask before
deleting. A symbol no instance uses gets "Delete the selected symbol?"
with Yes and No. A symbol with placed instances gets Expand Instances,
which turns the instances into ordinary art, Delete Instances, which
removes them, and Cancel; either Instances button deletes the symbol in
one undo step. Alt-click on the button deletes an unused symbol at once
and still asks about one with instances.
The question is bound to the document it was asked in: once another
document is active, or the symbol is gone, Yes deletes nothing, and a
symbol that gained instances while the question was open gets the
in-use question instead. symbol.delete itself does not ask.
The shared dialog frame takes a Cancel label (DialogSpec::cancel) for
the No button. The new strings have rows in every catalog.
The test moves the focus to the Roundness field before the drag and
steps the Angle with an arrow key after it, so it fails if a drag stops
giving the preview the keyboard focus.
The tip preview square in the Blob Brush Tool Options set the Angle by a
drag but had no accessible name, no value and no keyboard control.
Screen readers now get it as the Angle slider with the Angle in degrees
as its value. A click or a drag gives it the keyboard focus, and the
arrow keys, Shift with an arrow, Page Up and Page Down, Home and End
step the Angle within -180 to 180 degrees, as the dialog sliders built
on color_slider_stepped do (crates/ui-egui/src/widgets/color.rs). The
new widgets::stepped_area gives a caller-drawn control that slider's
screen-reader node, focus, keys and focus outline.
A built-in add-on in Object › Plug-ins › Arrange Tools (#4830, #4831, #4832, #4833, #4834):
- addon.arrange.grid lays the top-level selected objects out in rows and
columns, a row or a column (stacking order from the back, visual bounds,
each object centred in its cell), from the selection's top-left or
centred on the artboard.
- addon.arrange.swap swaps two objects' bounds centres, and with `size`
their widths and heights.
- addon.arrange.replace puts a copy of the topmost selected object centred
on each of the others, in its stacking place, kept, stretched or fitted
in proportion; the replaced objects are deleted unless `keep`.
- addon.arrange.size gives each selected object an exact width and/or
height about a reference point.
- addon.arrange.zoomSelection (a UI command) fits the active view to the
selection.
Places and sizes are measured as object.setBounds measures them (its
transform, now also available per object), strokes scale as Scale Strokes
& Effects says, each command is one undo step, and Arrange in Grid,
Replace with Top Object and Set Size of Each open previewed dialogs.
Catalog rows, command sweep cases, docs/mcp.md, parity docs and the
ROADMAP progress log.
The grid options' public page lists a Preview option: the repeat on the canvas follows the fields while the dialog is open. Object > Repeat > Options had none, so a change showed only after OK. Now a Grid Repeat's dialog has the checkbox: Cancel puts the original back without a history step, OK keeps the previewed values as one undo step. Radial and Mirror Repeat Options are left as they are, since their public pages list no Preview.
The Tool Options tip preview floored the short axis at 1% of the long one, while the brush draws 0% Roundness at 0.1%. The preview now uses the same 0.1% minimum, with a test that compares it with the tip the brush draws.
Blob Brush Tool Options gain Angle (-180 to 180 degrees, 0 by default)
and Roundness (0 to 100 percent, 100 by default), with a preview of the
tip and three dabs; a drag in the preview square sets the Angle. The
elliptical tip keeps its angle on the page along a stroke, a 0 percent
tip is drawn 0.1 percent as wide as it is long, and Size set to
Pressure still varies its size. path.blob takes angle and roundness,
and both values are kept with the tool's options.
While a non-round tip drags, the Blob Brush shows the outline of the
area it covers with its length label, and an Alt drag that smooths
shows the Smooth tool's thin line.
Holding backquote while dragging with the Selection tool (move, bounding-box
scale or rotate) or the Rotate, Reflect, Scale or Shear tool applies the drag
to the selected objects' pattern fills and strokes and leaves their geometry
in place. The key state at release decides the result: the key may be pressed
after the mouse button goes down, and releasing it before the button comes up
commits an ordinary transform. Objects without pattern paint do not move.
PointerEvent gains a `backquote` flag (false when absent). The desktop canvas
reads it from the held key on every pointer event, and `ui.pointer` and the
`pointer_gesture` tool accept it per event or as a default for the gesture.
Effect › Color Effects › Duotone… (addon.color.duotone, also in Object ›
Plug-ins › Color Effects) prints the grey-equivalent tone of each colour
with one to four inks, each with its own tone curve. It is a colour
adjustment like the add-on's others, so it stacks with them and works as
a filter through addon.color.filter.
- One tone of a swatch the document has gives a tint of that swatch,
linked, so a spot tone separates onto its plate; several tones give
the CMYK mix of their tints (the inks overprint, so they multiply).
- Colour adjustments now map paints with their swatch links
(ColorMap::apply_link); the existing adjustments behave as before.
- Skip Objects with Spot Colors leaves spot-linked colours as they are.
- The dialog has a row per tone and the picked tone's curve (the Curves
graph, reused), its points and Reset to Linear / Inverse.
Print Ink Fixes (addon.color.printFixes, Object › Plug-ins › Color
Effects › Print Ink Fixes…) scales CMYK colours over a total ink limit
down to it, removes white overprint and sets black overprint (Overprint
Black's logic) in a CMYK document, as one undo step, and reports what
changed. RGB documents are refused.
The panel opens both under Inks.
Deferred: an opaque undercoat, tones for type only, extra gradient stops
for smoother tints, curve flip and all-100 % buttons.
Effect › Color Effects › Vector Halftone… (addon.color.halftone, also in
Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects) draws its object as the halftone dots
Object › Vector Halftone makes, live: mono (one dot colour, or each dot in
the art's colour under it) or CMYK screens, the five dot shapes,
frequency, angle, invert and clip to the art's outline.
- The screens, dots and caps move to vectorcraft_effects::addons::halftone,
shared by the command (its behaviour and tests unchanged) and the effect.
- The renderer samples the art (vectorcraft_render::addons::halftone) and
keeps the dots by the object's content and what it reads from the
document, so unchanged art isn't sampled again; past 100000 cells per
screen the object draws as it is.
- Expand Appearance turns the object into its dots, and the SVG, PDF, EPS
and AI exporters write them as paths.
- Its dialog reuses the command's fields, without Keep Original.
Deferred: stochastic and radial patterns, a dot-gain curve, per-screen
separation settings, type or symbols as dots.
In effect dialogs (like Color Halftone), length fields with defined bounds
(e.g. Max Radius 4..127 pt) were previously checked only after num_field
returned, leaving the field's temporary buffer holding the un-clamped string
(e.g. '0.5 px'). Subsequently entering invalid text caused the field to
fall back to that sub-minimum buffer.
- Added num_field_within to pass effect parameter bounds directly to unit_field.
- When committed, clamp the parsed value within bounds and update the field
buffer to the formatted clamped value so the UI reflects what is applied.
- When invalid text is committed, clear the invalid buffer and trigger a
one-frame border highlight so invalid input is rejected visibly.
A built-in add-on in Effect › Color Effects and Object › Plug-ins › Color Effects:
- Exposure (stops of linear light, offset and gamma), Desaturate and
Invert Colors as live colour adjustments, evaluated in stack order with
those of Effect › Color Adjustments.
- addon.color.filter applies any colour adjustment to the colours
themselves, through the Edit Colors pass, as one undo step.
- A panel picks an adjustment and its values, then adds it as a live
effect or applies it as a filter.
The add-on lives in its own modules (effects, engine and ui-egui addons
folders) and leaves the existing effects, commands and menus as they
were.
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