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.
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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EjfPR4a1jPek7r3nyFFNYv
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EjfPR4a1jPek7r3nyFFNYv
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.
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.
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