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.
Found while testing crates/ui-egui/src/panels/color.rs:199-205 (parse_hex)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 Bosnian catalog still carried the Color (,) and Gradient (.) rows, which no longer match the toolbar's tips. It now translates Color (, or Shift+,) and Gradient (. or Shift+.) like the other catalogs.
The Color and Gradient tips now read "Color (, or Shift+,)" and
"Gradient (. or Shift+.)". The shortcuts follow the key positions, so on
layouts where Shift at those keys types another character the tips name
the keys to press. The 25 catalogs with these rows and the toolbar
accessibility test follow.
The key-position match for Shift+Comma and Shift+Period now applies only
when Shift is the only modifier. Cmd/Ctrl+Shift and Alt+Shift presses at
those keys keep their logical key, so the type-size shortcuts on German-like
layouts behave as before. The typing test also checks that no paint command
runs while text is edited.
With a fill row selected in the Appearance panel, Add New Fill now
inserts a copy of that row directly above it and selects the new fill.
Rows already above the selected one stay where they are. Before, the
new fill was always a copy of the topmost fill, added at the top.
The selected row belongs to the first selected object. In a mixed
selection, an object that shares that row gets the copy above its own
equal row; an object that does not share it gets a copy of its top
fill on top, as before. With a stroke row selected, or with `ids` or
`target: "contents"`, Add New Fill works as before.
The panel drops rows that were Cmd- or Shift-clicked together when the
active row changes outside the panel, so after Add New Fill (button,
menu or shortcut) only the new fill is selected.
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.
In these languages a count ending in 1 (other than 11) takes the singular form, which read as one swatch or one group. That form now names swatches and groups with the count in parentheses.
The confirmation for deleting several swatches and groups now goes
through i18n::tn, as the Graphic Styles prompt does, and each catalog
gives the count-dependent forms in an @plural row.
The first UI pass installed the default theme over the one the saved
preferences had applied earlier in the same frame, and later frames saw
the preferences as already applied. Classic, a non-default accent and a
Canvas Color showed as the defaults until a preference changed, and again
after the app took a new graphics context. The first pass now applies the
saved preferences.
With a blend selected, the Contextual Task Bar's Corner and Smooth
buttons failed with "select paths or anchor points", since
`path.convertAnchors` only read paths. They now convert every point of
the blend's spine, as they convert every anchor of a path selected
whole, in one undo step. The key objects stay where they are.
With Direct Selection, the Control bar and the Properties panel now
show their Convert buttons for a selected blend too.
The command palette runs a picked command with no params. Export Assets
then failed with "no assets yet" (or, with assets collected, exported
to no folder), and Remove, Rename and Asset Export Settings failed or
did nothing. Run with no params from the palette, a menu or a shortcut,
these four commands now show the Asset Export panel, and leave it open
when it already shows, docked or floating. Calls with params are
unchanged.
In the web build, pressing Shift and then a letter in one frame sends the Shift press, the
letter's text and then the letter's key press. The text paired with the Shift press as the press
before it, so a key-position shortcut looked up Shift instead of the letter, and a held Shift's
repeated presses dropped the text as a repeat. Modifier key presses now never pair with a text.
A text-only event right before a desktop keystroke in the same frame ([text, key, text]) took the key press as the press after it, which left the keystroke's own text with no key. A text now takes the press after it only when every later text in the same run of alternating texts and presses has a press after it too, as in the web build's [text, key] order; otherwise the press goes to the text after it.
eframe's web build sends a keystroke's text before its key press. On a
layout without Latin letters, the one-key shortcuts paired each text with
the last key press before it, so in the web build a lone keystroke had no
key and ran no shortcut, and a second keystroke in the same frame used
the first one's key.
Each text now takes the press right before it, unless an earlier text in
the frame took that press, and otherwise the press right after it. The
one-key shortcuts and the shortcut names a tool sees while it is busy use
the same pairing. The desktop order (key, then text) pairs as before.
The Tabs panel's ruler shows an upper marker at the first line's position
(left indent plus first-line indent) and a lower marker at the left
indent. Dragging the upper marker sets the first-line indent. Dragging the
lower marker sets the left indent and keeps each paragraph's first line
where it was; Ctrl-dragging it (Command on macOS) moves both markers.
Marker drags land on whole points, or on ruler ticks with Snap to Unit or
Shift, and each release is one undo step through text.setFormat. With a
marker selected, the X (or Y) field shows and sets its position.
When the touched paragraphs have different left indents, only the upper
marker is shown, and its position applies to every touched paragraph.
Path Precision Tools gains the Shared Edge Merge Tool, kept out of the
toolbars (All Tools drawer and Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools,
no shortcut), and Keep Shared Points Together:
- Shared Edge Merge Tool (sharedEdge): over two paths touching at two
coincident anchors (tolerance 0 to 3 pt) hovering shows the two
stretches and the merged edge; a click replaces both with it, half way
between them, or following the upper (Shift) or lower (Alt) path. Both
paths stay closed or open, anchors either stretch has inside are
matched on the other, one undo step.
- Making ends: near anchors meet on a click and an anchor one path lacks
is added to match; Shift+Alt asks for this inside a stretch.
- Keep Shared Points Together: an option that makes Slide Anchor Along
Path, Extend Path and Set Anchor take coincident anchors along. Nothing
else in the app changes.
- Shared Edges section in the Anchor Inspector: brush diameter,
coincidence and the option.
- Commands addon.pathtools.mergeEdge and movePointsTogether, params
validated and covered by the command sweep.
- Cursor stand-in, catalog rows in every language, docs and tests.
With the Live Paint Bucket, Alt-click on vector art samples its fill,
stroke and stroke weight into the paint defaults, and on a placed image
it samples the pixel as a solid fill with no stroke. Alt+Shift-click
samples only the color under the pointer, including an intermediate
gradient color or image pixels, into the active fill or stroke. Neither
click paints or changes the selection or selected art, and the next
Bucket click paints with the sampled paint. While Alt is held, the
Bucket shows the Eyedropper cursor and no face or edge highlight.
appearance.copyFrom takes `defaultsOnly: true` to update only the paint
defaults, and paint.sampleColor takes `clearStroke: true` to clear the
stroke default after an image sample into the fill.
An Escape that cancels a ruler-origin drag or a floating Tools panel move
now stops there: the active tool does not receive it, so a tool's own
Escape action (for example Intertwine returning to the Selection tool)
waits for the next press. The ruler-origin test also covers the drawer
and Global Edit.
A Selection or transform drag held still now gets another drag event when
the backquote key goes down or up, as it already did for Shift, Alt,
Cmd/Ctrl and Space, so the preview switches between a pattern-only and an
ordinary transform without waiting for the next pointer move.
Path Precision Tools gains two tools, kept out of the toolbars (All Tools
drawer and Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools, no shortcuts):
- Corner Tool (cornerTool): editable corners on any path through the
existing Live Corners. Hover shows an eligible anchor, a click cuts a
corner with the tool's radius and kind, a drag sizes it (Shift: whole
values), a corner's marker selects it and loads its values, resizes it
and removes it at 0 or on a double-click; a corner never grows past
what fits; an Alt-marquee cuts every eligible anchor inside.
- Corners section in the Anchor Inspector: radius, kind, selected count,
Apply to Selected Anchors.
- Slide Anchor Along Path (slideAnchor): a drag runs an anchor along its
curve, the neighbouring segments refitted by the keep-shape kernel;
Shift snaps where the tangent is a multiple of 45° from the constrain
angle.
- Commands addon.pathtools.cornerSet, cornerRemove and slideAnchor, one
undo step each, params validated and covered by the command sweep.
- Cursor stand-ins, catalog rows in every language, docs and tests.
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.
On layouts such as German, Shift+Period types `:` and Shift+Comma types
`;`, so the key event carries the Colon or Semicolon key and the
`Shift+.` and `Shift+,` bindings did not run. A shifted press at the
Comma or Period key position now runs the chord bound to that position
when no binding exists for the typed character; a binding the keymap
has for the typed character, such as a user's `Shift+;`, still wins.
Each press runs one command.
The tests send the key events these layouts produce, and the text
editing test checks after each press that fill and stroke stay as they
were.
Apply Last Color keeps `,` and also gets `Shift+,` as a default key;
Apply Last Gradient keeps `.` and also gets `Shift+.`. The keymap
catalog takes the extra defaults from a small alias table, the
Keyboard Shortcuts dialog lists every default key of a row, and reset
restores both.
A shifted punctuation chord that the active keymap binds now runs from
its key press, once per press, so a user binding such as `Shift+;`
works and layouts where Shift+Period types another character still run
the bound command. Text editing still types the characters.
The toolbar tips read "Color (, or <)" and "Gradient (. or >)", with
rows in every catalog.
object.lock.unselected is now reached by its key and as a command only:
the Object > Lock > Unselected Artwork menu item is removed, and the
command stays in the registry, the shortcut editor and automation.
In a partly selected clip group or compound path it now locks the
unselected members, the clipping path included, and leaves the container
and the selected members unlocked. It locks unselected guides while Lock
Guides is on. Hidden art and art on a locked layer stay unlocked, and a
selected layer's art counts as selected.
With a selection in isolation mode the command is enabled and locks only
the unselected art inside the isolated group. The other Lock and Hide
items keep their isolation behavior.
Lock and Hide still share one selector. A lock flag on it selects the
clip group, compound path and guide cases above; Hide > Unselected
Artwork keeps its behavior, and a test covers both directions.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The reference app locks all deselected artwork on Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+2.
VectorCraft had no command for it: Object > Lock held Selection, All
Artwork Above and Other Layers.
The new command, object.lock.unselected (Object > Lock > Unselected
Artwork), locks in one undo step the objects that Hide > Unselected
Artwork hides: every object that Select All takes and that is neither
selected nor holds a selected object. It returns the count. Hidden
objects stay unlocked. The selection stays as it is, Unlock All unlocks
the objects again and selects them, and with nothing to lock the
command records no undo step. Both commands now share one function,
which locks or hides the objects that the existing unselected helper
returns.
In isolation mode the menu item is disabled, and the command returns
the error "not available in isolation mode" that Hide > Unselected
Artwork returns there, and changes nothing.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Hiding a group with a panel's function key records the tabs it closed, and the next press reopens only that set with the panel in front. A tab closed on its own before the group was hidden, or reopened and closed again while the group was hidden, stays closed. The record is saved with the workspace.
When Brushes, Color, Layers, Info, Gradient, Stroke, Attributes, Graphic
Styles, Appearance, Align, Transform, Pathfinder, Transparency or
Symbols is in front of an expanded dock group or a floating group, its
function key now hides the whole group instead of closing only that
tab. The next press brings the group back in the same place with every
tab and the panel in front, and Window > a hidden sibling also restores
the group. A background tab still comes to the front on the first
press, and in an icon column the key opens and closes the flyout.
Other panel shortcuts and plain window.panel calls keep their behavior.
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