With the Selection tool, a single selected grid repeat shows a handle below the grid (rows), one right of it (columns), one past its bottom-right corner (both) and sliders between its first two columns and rows (horizontal and vertical spacing), as the public Set grid repeat options page describes. Each drag previews object.repeat.options and commits as one Repeat Options undo step; Escape cancels, and a drag that ends where it began leaves no step. Bounding-box handles keep priority where they overlap, and the controls hide with the edges or the bounding box. Before, a drag there scaled the source or started a marquee.
Part of #2691.
Every pointer move of a frame went to whatever tool was active, so with
a fast mouse (or a pen) a tool whose drag preview is costly (the
Selection tool moving a large selection, Free Distort, the Width tool)
redid it for each, up to 64 times a frame.
Tool::wants_samples (default false) says a tool builds a stroke from
the drag's samples: the Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, Eraser, Knife,
Smooth and Path Eraser answer true (the Paintbrush through its wrapper),
the Join tool doesn't. The canvas still reads the frame's moves every
frame, so the macOS feed's pressures stay paired, but replays them only
to such a tool; every other tool gets one drag a frame at the latest
position. A frame whose moves end where the last frame's did still
reaches the tool.
Tests: only_the_freehand_tools_get_every_move_of_a_frame (Pencil,
Paintbrush and Blob Brush get the 19 moves before the last, Selection,
Direct Selection and Width none),
a_mouse_stroke_keeps_a_frame_that_ends_where_it_started,
the_freehand_tools_want_every_sample, and
a_mouse_stroke_keeps_every_move_of_a_frame now checks every position in
order, not only the count.
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A Pencil stroke always previewed as the path it draws, with its full
appearance: with a fill set, the fill flipped between the shape and its
inside-out as the stroke crossed itself or curved back, and hid the line
being drawn.
Pencil Tool Options get a Live preview checkbox, above Live curve
fitting, on by default and kept with the tool's other options
(`livePreview`, settings.rs). With it off, the stroke previews nothing
while it is drawn: a thin line follows the pen (the drag overlay the
Knife and Blob Brush already show), and the release, or a switch of
tool mid-stroke, draws the path with its fill and stroke, as one undo
step, as before. Escape still cancels the stroke. With it on nothing
changes. The Paintbrush has no such option and keeps previewing.
Public reference: Draw and edit paths using the Pencil tool,
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/pencil-tool.html
(lists Live preview and Live curve fitting among the Pencil's options).
The checkbox label is translated in all 24 catalogs.
Tests: pencil_with_live_preview_off_shows_a_thin_line_until_the_release
(tools), pencil_with_live_preview_off_draws_the_filled_path_on_release
(engine), and the freehand dialog test shows the checkbox for the Pencil
only.
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A selected compound path (a shape with a hole, such as one made with
Object › Compound Path › Make) could not be redrawn with the Pencil or
the Paintbrush: at the press, find_redraw looked only for selected
objects that are paths themselves, and a compound path's paths are its
children. The stroke then drew a new path, which Keep selected selected
in place of the compound path, so every later stroke near the shape drew
a new path too: redrawing seemed to stop working.
- find_redraw takes a selected compound path's member paths as well,
the nearest one within Edit selected paths within of the press.
- path.freehand's redraw keeps the compound path selected (or, with Keep
selected off, takes it out of the selection) when the redrawn path is
one of its members, so the next stroke redraws it too.
Test: pencil_redraws_a_selected_compound_path redraws the outer path and
then the hole of a selected compound path; it fails without this change
(the first stroke draws a new path).
cargo xtask ci: every step passes except one test in `test`,
vectorcraft-pdf tests_import_fidelity::text_becomes_point_type, which
fails the same way on unmodified main on this machine; it is unrelated
to this change.
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Draw freeform paths with the Pencil tool says a small star appears on
the Pencil when it is ready to draw a freeform path, and Reshape paths
with the Pencil tool says the star disappears over a selected path the
drag reshapes. The Pencil cursor had no star.
- New Cursor::PencilNew: the Pencil's crosshair with a small star where
the closing cursor has its ring. It becomes the crosshair with Use
Precise Cursors and as a system cursor.
- The Pencil shows it before a press when neither find_extend nor
find_redraw (the lookups the press uses, within Edit Selected Paths)
finds a selected path under the pointer. Over such a path and while a
stroke is drawn, the cursor has no star.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
Pencil Tool Options has a Live curve fitting checkbox, on by default.
With it off, the path shown while a Pencil stroke is drawn joins the
stroke's points with straight segments, and the release fits the curve
at the Fidelity, as it does with the option on. Choosing another tool
while a stroke is drawn also keeps the stroke fitted. The option is
saved with the tool's other options.
path.freehand takes fit (true by default): with fit false, a new path,
a continued path and a redrawn section join the points with straight
segments.
The reference app detects lists typed as 1., 1), A. or A), and makes
custom bullets from *, #, > or + followed by a space. In VectorCraft
the characters stayed as text.
When the Type tool types a space on its own after one of these at the
start of a paragraph in no list, the typing so far becomes one undo
step. The new command text.startList then removes the typed characters
and the space and makes the paragraph a numbered list in 1, 2, 3 or
A, B, C, or a bulleted list with the filled dot. A paragraph with no
indents gets the 18 pt hanging indent. One Undo puts the characters
back as text with no list, and the caret goes on after them; Redo
removes them again. The same characters later in a paragraph, list
characters pasted in one piece with the space and a paragraph already
in a list start nothing.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
When both sides of a 1.5 pt bar have a point level with a click 0.1 pt
from its end, the point of each side nearest the click is the end of a
segment, so the sides were not tried and an Alt-click there touched the
end edge.
A segment end now also counts when the segment is square there to the
line to the point, so splitting a side at the click gives the same
answer as an unsplit side.
A point 0.1 pt from the end of a 1.5 pt bar is nearest the end of the
bar, and the line from there through the point runs along the bar, so
the region did not count as narrow and an Alt-click there touched the
end edge.
A region now counts as narrow at a point when it is no more than twice
the tolerance across from any outline segment within the tolerance whose
point square to the line to the point lies inside the segment, as well
as from the nearest point of the outline. Segment ends other than the
nearest point are not tried, so a point added on an edge does not change
the result near a corner.
In erase mode the tool tests each point for a line piece or an edge
within the tolerance before the region under it. Every point of a region
narrower than twice the tolerance is that close to its edges, so an
Alt-click, the Alt hover and an Alt-drag over a thin overlap touched its
edges and not the overlap, and the overlap was left behind.
A point in a region now touches the region when the region is no more
than twice the tolerance across there, measured from the nearest point
of its outline through the point to the outline on the other side. This
covers a drag at any angle, a drag that starts or ends in the region,
and a thin shape inside another or on its own. Near an edge of a wider
region, the edge is touched as before.
shapeBuilder.merge built the planar map of the selection again, on the
thread that runs the command, although the Shape Builder tool had just
built the same map for its hover. The tool now returns its map from a
new Tool::shape_builder_map, and the command uses that map when its
inputs are the merge's inputs and its gap is the merge's gap; otherwise
it builds its own as before. The tool's map has the outline edges, so
erasing and splitting a stroke use it too.
A group counted as a Live Paint group when its name started with "Live
Paint". A plain group named, for example, "Live Painting" was then read
as one. With it and another shape selected, the Shape Builder found no
regions in it, and a merge on the other shape deleted the group and its
paths. Make Live Paint took the group as a Live Paint group to merge
into, and its paths did not become sources.
A Live Paint group now also needs its sources group, the group named
"Live Paint Sources" that Make Live Paint puts in it. A plain group with
such a name is traversed like any other group.
The Paintbrush drops a sample less than a pixel from the last kept
point, and a release there keeps that point. The new test moves the
pointer inside Close Paths When Ends Are Within while the kept point
stays outside it, and checks that the cursor shows no closing ring and
that the release leaves the path open.
The old pen glyph was a crude pentagon with a floating dot and a stray
stem. Redraw it as the precision instrument it is: the pen-tool icon's
nib — sharp point on the hotspot, shoulders flaring to their widest
two-thirds back, a narrower flat heel, a slit widening into the round
breather hole — swung round onto the selection arrow's midline
(arrow_axis), so holding Cmd/Ctrl to swap between the Pen and the
selection tools no longer rotates the cursor under the pointer.
Badges keep their meanings (*, +, -, o, /, j, ^, ~) and multi-stroke
ones now draw all halos under all ink via strokes(), so neighbouring
strokes no longer cut each other into blobs.
With Shift or Alt held (Alt only while Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool
is off), a Pencil press on an end of a selected open path draws a
straight line that continues the path, but before the press the cursor
was the plain straight-line cursor. Draw straight lines with the Pencil
tool says a path-continuation icon appears on the Pencil over that end:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-straight-lines-with-the-pencil-tool.html
Over such an end the cursor is now PencilContinue, the straight-line
cursor's line leaving a small filled square.
The check is the one the press makes (Edit Selected Paths, the same
end lookup). Away from the ends, with Edit Selected Paths at 0 pixels,
with nothing selected and while the line is drawn, the cursor is as
before.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md and docs/ui-parity.md, where the
duplicate Pencil lines and rows left by earlier merges are cut to one.
With a Live Paint group in the selection, the Shape Builder took every
visible path in the group as an input. Unfilled faces became regions of
their own and came back from a merge as invisible paths. An edge that
closes on itself, such as the outline of a single rectangle, became a
second shape over its face: a click on the face gave the merged shape
the edge's look, a stroke with no fill.
The Shape Builder now takes the group's visible filled faces as shapes
and its visible stroked edges as open lines; a closed edge is opened at
its first anchor. A merge replaces the group with the merged shape, the
filled faces it did not use and the edges, except the edges between
merged faces, as it does for other selected paths and lines. An area
that the edges enclose around an unfilled face is still a region. The
Live Paint commands still collect every face and edge.
Holding Alt over a selection the Shape Builder had already mapped built
the planar map a second time, to add the outline edges that erasing
hits. A merge, and a Live Paint Bucket fill of a plain selection, also
dropped the map, so a gesture that left the document unchanged was
followed by another full build.
The Shape Builder now builds its map with the outline edges the first
time, and both tools keep the map until the document, its revision or
the selection changes.
When the inputs have more than 128 segments, a hover with the Shape
Builder or the Live Paint Bucket now builds the map on another thread
and highlights no region until it arrives, instead of holding up the
frame; the canvas checks for it each frame. A press waits for the map,
and the headless MCP host waits for it after a move. The web build has
no threads and builds the map at once. The Live Paint Selection tool's
hover no longer builds a map of the selection, which it did not use.
A merge removed every piece of an open line that had a merged region on
both sides. The end of a line that stops inside a shape has the same
region on both sides, so a click or a drag on the shape, or deleting it
in erase mode, cut the line back to where it enters the shape.
A piece is now removed only when it runs between two different merged
or deleted regions. A line that crosses a shape still splits it, and
merging the two halves still removes the piece between them.
A drag tested points spaced by a step that grew with the selection (at
least 0.25 pt), and the tool's highlight tested points 2 screen pixels
apart. A region narrower than the step, such as a thin overlap, fell
between samples: it kept its piece of each source, the merge left strips
behind, or the drag failed with "no region under the pointer" while the
highlight showed the region. Zoomed out, the highlight could miss a
region the merge then took.
The drag now finds where each segment crosses a region outline and tests
the middle of every stretch between crossings, so every region it
crosses is picked. The tool's highlight and shapeBuilder.merge use the
same picking, and Shaper's scribble picks the faces it crosses the same
way. In erase mode the line pieces and edges are still found within the
tolerance, and a segment that crosses one also tests the crossing point.
Shaper's scribble found the strokes to erase at points at least 0.5 pt
apart, so with a tolerance below 1 pt it could pass over a stroke
without erasing it. It now also tests where the scribble crosses each
stroke and points tolerance / 2 apart.
The Shape Builder, Live Paint Bucket and Live Paint Selection keep the
selection's region map between pointer events, keyed on the document's
address and the selected ids. Every edit replaces the document, and after
an undo followed by an edit a later document can be allocated at the
address of the one the map was built from. The key then matched a map of
an earlier revision, so a drag across the art merged nothing and a Live
Paint Bucket click filled nothing.
The key now also holds the tool context's revision, which moves with every
edit, undo and selection change.
A Paintbrush sample dropped for being under a pixel from the last point
left the ring computed from the pointer, while the release keeps the last
point; the ring now follows that point (CodeRabbit).
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A Pencil or Paintbrush stroke released within Close Paths When Ends Are
Within of its start closes, but the cursor gave no sign of it. While the
pointer is where a release would close the stroke, the cursor is now
PencilClose (PaintbrushClose for the Paintbrush), the crosshair with a
ring, as Draw straight lines with the Pencil tool describes:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-straight-lines-with-the-pencil-tool.html
The check is the one the release makes, on the end the stroke would
take (snapped for the Pencil). A straight line (Shift or Alt held at the
press), a stroke that continues a selected path, a stroke that redraws
one and a smoothing drag show no ring.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
Live Paint builds its faces and edges from path outlines alone. Make,
Merge and the Live Paint Bucket put every selected object among the
group's hidden sources, so type, an image, a symbol, a blend or a group
holding one of them vanished from the canvas. They now refuse such a
selection before changing anything ("Live Paint takes paths and compound
paths: convert type, images and other objects to paths first"), as type
and raster images can't go into a Live Paint group directly
(https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/paint-and-fill/learn-painting-basics/create-live-paint-groups.html).
One predicate, vectorcraft_tools::builder::live_paint_takes (Live Paint
groups, paths, compound paths and groups of them), decides it for Make,
Merge and the Properties panel's Merge Live Paint, which no longer shows
for a selection Merge refuses. The message has an @msg row in every
catalog.
Tests: tests_build::live_paint_refuses_type_and_images_and_changes_nothing
(Merge, Make and the Bucket with type, an image or a group holding type:
refused, document, selection and undo history unchanged; a group of
paths and a path still merge) and
panels::properties::tests::merge_live_paint_is_a_quick_action_for_a_live_paint_group_and_more
(hidden with type selected). Both fail without the change.
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The PencilStraight entry in cursors.toml now says the cursor does not
show while Alt is also held with Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool on, and
that the line follows 45° steps from the Constrain Angle. The parity doc
says the Option/Alt straight line waits for #3959.
With Shift held before a press, the Pencil now shows a new cursor,
PencilStraight: its crosshair with a short straight line where the
closing cursor has its ring. The cursor follows the rule the press uses
to start a straight line, so it shows exactly when the press draws one.
With Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool on and Alt held too, the Smooth
cursor shows as before. Once the press is down, and with the
Paintbrush, Shift leaves the tool's own cursor. Use Precise Cursors
turns the new cursor into the plain crosshair.
Draw straight lines with the Pencil tool describes a straight-line icon
on the Pencil while Shift or Alt is held:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/draw-shapes-and-paths/draw-shapes/draw-straight-lines-with-the-pencil-tool.html
Picking the two points of a Linear dimension snapped to anchors and to the
line under the pointer, but showed no guides and ignored the art around it.
The picks now go through the drawing tools' Smart Guides (DrawSnap), hovering
too, so the guides show before each click: a point slides into line with other
objects' anchors and centres, and the second onto the construction guides
through the first. An anchor of the line under the pointer still wins (it
links the dimension to that path), then a guide, then the closest point of the
line (#2432). The guides go once the dimension is being placed.
Test: linear_picks_show_and_snap_to_smart_guides (fails on the old tool, which
showed no overlays while hovering). docs/dimensions.md updated.
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The Pencil and PencilClose entries in cursors.toml, the PencilClose doc
comment and the closing-cursor line in docs/target-app-parity.md said Alt
held while drawing closes the path. A drag started with Shift or Alt
held draws an open straight line and does not show the closing cursor,
so the texts now say Alt is pressed after the drag starts and name that
exception.
With Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool off, holding Alt when a Pencil drag
starts now draws one straight segment from the press point to the
pointer, at the angle the pointer takes, as Shift does at 45° steps.
Pressed on an end of a selected open path, the line continues the path
from that end. Both ends snap to Smart Guides as a stroke's ends do, and
the line stays open when Alt is still held at the release. Shift and Alt
together keep the 45° steps.
Before, a drag started and released with Alt held drew a closed freehand
path. Alt pressed after the drag has started still closes the path at
the release, and with Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool on, Alt still switches
to the Smooth tool. Before a Pencil press, Alt no longer shows the closing
cursor.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/ui-parity.md.
CodeRabbit findings #2, #16, #31, #103, #114, #124, #162, #179, #182, #183, #185:
- Shortcut import review: example names for each code in one pass over the rows.
- Gradients: a midpoint stop is mixed from its two stops; freeform recolor samples its
increasing positions with one advancing search (`Gradient::sample_increasing_with`).
- Recovery: image entry names are looked up by address, and dead ones swept when the map
doubles, not on every image.
- Script checker: include cycles from strongly connected components (iterative Tarjan), not
a reachability row per file.
- Batch step references copy at most 256 MB of values for one step.
- DOCX: style ids over 256 bytes are ignored where defined and where used.
- DXF: layouts keep at most 4 MB of names; a hatch's loops count against the node limit.
- Freehand and Liquify: past 1000 samples a drag previews every n/1000 samples, strokes keep
at most 100,000 samples, and the stroke kept is previewed in full before it is committed.
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