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.
Character Rotation turned a glyph's baseline shift and scaling with the glyph, and the Skew path effect slants a glyph's height away from the path's normal, so the x-height guide moved off the glyphs. Each positioned glyph now carries the transform that removes its Character Rotation (PositionedGlyph::unturned), and the guide goes through the glyph's x-height point placed without it, measured across the baseline. Snap to Glyph also takes Smart Guides being on in the tools, as View › Snap to Glyph already does in the engine.
With View › Snap to Glyph and Smart Guides on, a point drawn near a single
line of live type now also lands on the anchor points of its glyphs and lines
up with its x-height (raised or lowered by Baseline Shift) and with the edges
of each character's advance width along the baseline (proximity guides). In
rotated type the baseline, x-height and proximity guides run at the type's
angle, and type of one glyph also has angular guides along the glyph's slanted
straight segments; a segment that Shift keeps to its angle slides onto them.
A paragraph shows glyph bounds only, so its baselines are no longer guides.
FontFace::x_height gives a face's x-height in font units.
The reference app keeps the inner radius of a star constant when Ctrl
or Command is held after the drag starts. VectorCraft's Star tool took
the held radius from the first drag event that carried the key, using
that event's outer radius. The canvas sends a drag only once the
pointer moves, so a key pressed with the pointer still scaled the
inner radius with the next move before holding it.
Ctrl/Cmd now holds the inner radius the star showed at the last drag
position before the key went down, with Alt's straight shoulders when
Alt was held. A new press and Escape clear the held radius. Before,
after a drag canceled with Escape, the next star took the canceled
star's inner radius when Ctrl/Cmd went down before that star's first
drag event.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
Escape did not cancel a drag with the Anchor Point, Mesh, Shape Builder
and Measure tools, or a Direct Selection drag of a mesh point, a corner
widget or the brackets of type on a path: the drag went on until the
mouse was released. Escape cancels every other Direct Selection drag
and a drag with the Free Transform, Rotate, Reflect, Scale, Shear and
Gradient tools.
Escape now cancels an Anchor Point drag, a Mesh tool drag of a mesh
point or handle, and a Direct Selection drag of a mesh point or handle,
a corner widget or the brackets of type on a path. The art goes back to
how the press found it, no undo step is added, and the rest of the drag
and the release send nothing. Escape during a Shape Builder drag ends
it, so the release merges and deletes nothing; the tool takes Escape
only during the drag. Escape during a Measure tool drag ends it and
brings back the measurement shown before the press. Escape after an
Anchor Point or Direct Selection press that has not moved yet drops the
press. Otherwise, outside a drag, Escape does what it did before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Escape did not cancel a drag with the Puppet Warp, Perspective Grid,
Perspective Selection and Liquify tools: the drag went on until the
mouse was released. Escape cancels a drag with the Direct Selection,
Gradient and Artboard tools.
Escape now cancels a Puppet Warp pin drag or turn, a Perspective Grid
handle or plane widget drag, a Perspective Selection move, resize or
plane widget drag, and a Liquify stroke. The art and the grid go back
to how they were when the drag began, the undo history does not
change, and the rest of the drag and the release send nothing. Puppet
Warp selects again the pins that were selected before the press.
During a Liquify Alt-drag that sizes the brush, Escape puts the brush
size back; the tool claims Escape only then. Escape during a
Perspective Selection press that has not moved past the drag threshold
ends the press, so moving on does not start a move. Otherwise, outside
a drag, Escape does what it did before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The Type tool heard of Undo and Redo only when they ran as top-level
commands. As steps of command.batch, they left the caret where it was,
and the tool took the batch for an outside edit. Session::execute now
tells the active tool about each nested edit.undo and edit.redo.
command.batch also tells the tool when it begins, ends or rolls back.
The Type tool keeps its caret and its edit records at the start of each
batch and puts them back when a failed batch rolls the documents back.
While the Type tool edits type, Edit > Undo and Redo (the menu, the
keyboard, the History panel and MCP all run edit.undo and edit.redo)
left the caret at its byte offset, clamped to the text. Typing "abc"
before "XYZ" and pressing Undo left the caret after "XYZ".
The engine now tells the active tool about edit.undo and edit.redo
before it finishes the command. The Type tool keeps the edited text and
a list of the steps that changed it, and puts the caret, with nothing
selected, at the end of the span the step changed: where typed text
began after its Undo, after restored text after the Undo of a deletion,
and after retyped text after Redo. For the steps the tool made, it keeps
where the span ended, so text that repeats the characters next to it
puts the caret at the right end. A step that changes no characters,
such as a formatting change, leaves the caret and the selection as they
are. Typed lists keep their caret positions.
A click with the Scissors tool cut the path whether or not Alt was
held, and the cursor stayed the Scissors cursor. The reference app's
shortcut list has "Switch Scissors tool to Add Anchor Point tool" on
Alt (Option).
While Alt is held, a click with the Scissors tool now does what a click
with the Add Anchor Point tool does: on a segment it adds an anchor
point with path.insertAnchor in one undo step, and the path is not cut.
The cursor is the Add Anchor Point tool's while Alt is held. When Alt
is let go, the cursor is the Scissors again and a click cuts.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, crates/tools/src/cursors.toml.
The reference app's shortcut list switches between its Type tools with
Shift and with Alt (Option). VectorCraft's Type tools had no such switch.
While no type is being edited, a press with Shift held makes new type
with the chosen tool's horizontal or vertical counterpart: Type and
Vertical Type, Area Type and Vertical Area Type, Type on a Path and
Vertical Type on a Path. A press with Alt held makes it with Type on a
Path in place of Area Type, or the reverse, in the same writing
direction. With both keys held, both switch. The keys held when the
press starts are the ones that count. The pointer shows the tool the
press acts as, and the chosen tool stays selected. While type is being
edited, Shift and Alt work as they did.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
With the Width tool, Escape did not deselect the selected width points:
they stayed selected, Delete still removed them, and in isolation mode
the same Escape left isolation mode. The reference app's shortcut list
gives Esc for deselecting a width point.
Escape now deselects the Width tool's selected width points. The path,
its widths and the undo history do not change, and no command is sent.
While width points are selected the tool takes Escape, so that Escape
does not also leave isolation mode. With no width point selected, and
during a drag, Escape does what it did before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The reference app switches an arc between open and closed with C,
flips it with F and changes its angle with Up/Down while it is dragged
out. VectorCraft's Arc tool ignored these keys during a drag.
While an arc is dragged out, C now switches it between an open and a
closed path, F switches its base between the X and Y axes in the same
box, and Up/Down raise and lower its slope by 10 within -100 to 100.
Each press switches once. The arc drawn on release uses the new values,
and they stay as the Arc tool's options. With nothing dragged, C and F
are shortcuts as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A release that arrives at a new position with no drag before it now counts
as movement, so Alt pressed at that moment no longer switches the stroke
to the Smooth tool.
Alt switched a Blob Brush stroke to the Smooth tool while the stroke held fewer than two
points, so a drag that had moved less than the sampling tolerance still switched when Alt
went down. The tool now records whether the pointer has moved from the press point at all.
A release with Alt held, after a press without Alt and no movement, also smooths instead of
painting a dot, matching the Smooth cursor shown before it.
The reference app switches the Blob Brush to the Smooth tool while Alt
(Option) is held. In VectorCraft an Alt drag with the Blob Brush painted
a blob like any other drag.
With Alt held at the press, or pressed before the drag has moved, the
Blob Brush shows the Smooth tool's cursor and a thin line without the
length label, and the release smooths the selected paths under the
drag with path.smoothRegion, as the Pencil does when Alt key toggles to
Smooth Tool is on. Shift does not constrain a smoothing drag, a stroke
that has moved keeps painting when Alt goes down, and with nothing
selected the release changes no path.
Choosing another tool during a Pencil smoothing drag no longer leaves
the Pencil showing the Smooth tool's cursor when it is chosen again.
deactivate now clears the smoothing state, for the Blob Brush too.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
With "Alt key toggles to Smooth Tool" on, an Alt drag with the Pencil
smoothed within the Pencil's "Edit selected paths" Within distance. At
0, which turns editing off, it smoothed nothing. It now smooths within
the Smooth tool's 12 px radius at every Within value.
Deleting a point of a finished path with the Curvature tool sent
path.removeAnchor, which refits the two segments that met at the point so
one curve follows them. The path kept the bend of the deleted point
instead of curving through the points that remain.
The tool now sends path.removeAnchor with curvature: true, which uses the
new curvature_remove. Each smooth neighbor takes new handles from its new
neighbors, and an end beside one of them takes its end handle again. A
corner neighbor keeps its handle directions, and its handle on the new
segment scales with the segment's chord. With two points left, the points
that curve lose their handles. Object > Path > Remove Anchor Points and
the Delete Anchor Point tool still refit the curve.
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