From cea0eb83585ba1ba30793d33b31998954f6fce01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Green Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 13:07:11 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves The AppKit cursor adapter set its cursor again only when NSCursor.currentCursor differed from it. But that is the app's last set cursor, not the one on screen: when the pointer moves, AppKit can put the system arrow back while currentCursor still reads as ours, so the adapter kept the arrow. Pressing V over the canvas showed the Selection tool's arrow, and the first move replaced it with the system pointer. While it owns the cursor, the adapter now sets it on every pass. That costs nothing when it is already showing. --- apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor.rs | 11 ++++------- apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor/tests.rs | 19 +++++-------------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor.rs b/apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor.rs index 85fea6c78a..69685a35b5 100644 --- a/apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor.rs +++ b/apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor.rs @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ trait Backend { fn suspend(&mut self, window: &Self::Window); fn restore(&mut self, window: &Self::Window); fn build(&mut self, request: &Request) -> Option; - fn current(&self) -> Option; fn set(&mut self, cursor: &Self::Cursor); } @@ -73,9 +72,10 @@ impl State { && *key == request.key && *owned == window { - if self.backend.current().as_ref() != Some(cursor) { - self.backend.set(cursor); - } + // AppKit can show the system arrow when the pointer moves while + // `NSCursor.currentCursor` (the app's last set cursor) still reads as ours, so a + // comparison would keep the arrow. Setting the cursor again costs nothing. + self.backend.set(cursor); return; } self.release(); @@ -135,9 +135,6 @@ impl Backend for AppKit { fn build(&mut self, request: &Request) -> Option { build(&request.bitmap) } - fn current(&self) -> Option { - Some(NSCursor::currentCursor()) - } fn set(&mut self, cursor: &Self::Cursor) { cursor.set(); } diff --git a/apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor/tests.rs b/apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor/tests.rs index 648492c4b2..ad13a11336 100644 --- a/apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor/tests.rs +++ b/apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_cursor/tests.rs @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ use std::cell::Cell; struct Fake { window: Option, suspended: Vec, - current: Option, sets: usize, builds: usize, restores: Vec, @@ -27,17 +26,12 @@ impl Backend for Fake { fn restore(&mut self, w: &u8) { self.suspended.retain(|v| v != w); self.restores.push(*w); - self.current = None; } fn build(&mut self, r: &Request) -> Option { self.builds += 1; (!self.fail).then_some(r.key) } - fn current(&self) -> Option { - self.current - } - fn set(&mut self, cursor: &Key) { - self.current = Some(*cursor); + fn set(&mut self, _: &Key) { self.sets += 1; } } @@ -66,19 +60,16 @@ fn deliver(state: &mut State, request: Option) { } #[test] -fn mac_cursor_ownership_deduplicates_reasserts_and_restores() { +fn mac_cursor_ownership_reasserts_every_pass_and_restores() { let req = request(1.0); let mut state = fake_state(); deliver(&mut state, Some(req.clone())); assert_eq!(state.backend.suspended, [1]); assert_eq!((state.backend.builds, state.backend.sets), (1, 1)); + // The pointer moves and AppKit shows the system arrow, but the app's current cursor + // still reads as ours. The next pass sets it again without rebuilding or re-suspending. deliver(&mut state, Some(req.clone())); - assert_eq!(state.backend.sets, 1); - // Simulate a platform fallback replacing the cursor after finalization. The next pass - // reasserts; this proves the protocol, not AppKit timing or absence of transient flicker. - state.backend.current = None; - deliver(&mut state, Some(req.clone())); - assert_eq!(state.backend.sets, 2); + assert_eq!((state.backend.builds, state.backend.sets, state.backend.suspended.len()), (1, 2, 1)); deliver(&mut state, None); assert_eq!(state.backend.restores, [1]); deliver(&mut state, Some(req.clone())); From 6e040ba4847736e2c3f81b82e2e43eb7b37b6803 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Green Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:54:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] macOS cursor: progress docs for the cursor staying after the pointer moves The AppKit cursor delivery's evidence in docs/ui-parity.md and docs/target-app-parity.md says the host sets its cursor again on every pass while it owns it, so the tool's cursor stays when the pointer moves (#6362). Status lines and history updated; scores and estimates unchanged. --- docs/target-app-parity.md | 5 +++-- docs/ui-parity.md | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/target-app-parity.md b/docs/target-app-parity.md index d42a4d988b..e2b3ca28f5 100644 --- a/docs/target-app-parity.md +++ b/docs/target-app-parity.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Parity with Adobe Illustrator -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (Type tool: kerning at a caret at the start of a line moves the character after it, #5111; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Rulers: the zero point dragged out of the rulers' corner snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Envelopes: with Distort Appearance, type's strokes paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, as users' `.ai` files draw them, which changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw (#6644; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: G5: Energy Beams brush library; bundled content ~44% → ~46%; previously minor: G5: Skill Icons symbol library; bundled content ~42% → ~44%; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art (#6570; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Status Effects graphic style library; bundled content ~40% → ~42%; MCP symbol libraries list UI Frames and Map Markers; previously minor: G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; bundled content ~38% → ~40%; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid where VectorCraft's warp doesn't draw as their drawn art (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Game Trails brush library; bundled content ~36% → ~38%; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Game HUD graphic style library; bundled content ~34% → ~36%; previously minor: Line Arrow arrowhead (#5421; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; bundled content ~32% → ~34%; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: Canvas: a 3D effect changed on type or a group redraws where its solid was; Fit to Artwork Bounds and per-artboard SVG export build each solid once for all artboards; previously minor: Effect Gallery: a thumbnail for each filter and a preview area inside the dialog, on an original drawing; Raster effects 52% → 55%, hours 1–2 → none; headline numbers unchanged; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: UI Frames built-in symbol library with default 9-slice; bundled content ~32%; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas opacity/blend/gradient/pattern; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners; symbols ~88%; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: harakat paint fallback clarified; previously minor: current Guides feature-area rows consolidated using existing ruler evidence; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from strokes remaining; symbols remaining lists dynamic on-canvas beyond solid and guides outside the art; previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; `.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; the canvas keeps selection outlines and anchors between frames; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Stroke gradients: an arrowhead aligned to the tip is painted to the corners of its base, #5964; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Properties in Edit Artboards: a Transform section with the reference point above the Artboards section, #5219; the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links scrub their fields, #4088; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window, #4155; Control bar Paragraph section with type selected, #5372; translating unchanged type reuses its glyph and character-stroke outlines; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves, #6362; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Type tool: kerning at a caret at the start of a line moves the character after it, #5111; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Rulers: the zero point dragged out of the rulers' corner snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Envelopes: with Distort Appearance, type's strokes paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, as users' `.ai` files draw them, which changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw (#6644; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: G5: Energy Beams brush library; bundled content ~44% → ~46%; previously minor: G5: Skill Icons symbol library; bundled content ~42% → ~44%; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: an envelope saved in Edit Contents whose mesh lies away from its drawn art by a move opens live on that art (#6570; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Status Effects graphic style library; bundled content ~40% → ~42%; MCP symbol libraries list UI Frames and Map Markers; previously minor: G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library; bundled content ~38% → ~40%; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: stroked type in an envelope maps from its glyphs grown by half its stroke (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: warps of type open as mesh envelopes on their saved grid where VectorCraft's warp doesn't draw as their drawn art (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Game Trails brush library; bundled content ~36% → ~38%; previously minor: Edit › Edit Custom Dictionary…: its dialog adds, deletes and changes the custom dictionary's words, #4936; previously minor: `.ai` and EPS import: envelopes of type open live where they draw as their drawn art and the layers with them draw as the page (#3179; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Game HUD graphic style library; bundled content ~34% → ~36%; previously minor: Line Arrow arrowhead (#5421; scores and estimates unchanged); G5: Map Markers built-in symbol library; bundled content ~32% → ~34%; previously minor: right-click on type: Spelling › Auto Spell Check, with its check mark, #4936; previously minor: right-click on a word Auto Spell Check underlined: its suggestions, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary, #4936; previously minor: Canvas: a 3D effect changed on type or a group redraws where its solid was; Fit to Artwork Bounds and per-artboard SVG export build each solid once for all artboards; previously minor: Effect Gallery: a thumbnail for each filter and a preview area inside the dialog, on an original drawing; Raster effects 52% → 55%, hours 1–2 → none; headline numbers unchanged; Auto Spell Check: `edit.autoSpellCheck` underlines the unknown words, #4936; previously minor: PDF editable import preserves authored ActualText once, including empty/nested spans and authored ordering (#6165); cross-line/style layout remains approximate; scores and estimates unchanged; PDF marked-text export (#6309): compatible glyphs stay on one layout line with per-glyph offsets; scores and estimates unchanged; G5: UI Frames built-in symbol library with default 9-slice; bundled content ~32%; previously minor: G5: dynamic symbol part on-canvas opacity/blend/gradient/pattern; strokes remaining no longer lists Overlap/auto corners; symbols ~88%; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: harakat paint fallback clarified; previously minor: current Guides feature-area rows consolidated using existing ruler evidence; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: G5 docs: Art brush Overlap and Pattern brush auto corners removed from strokes remaining; symbols remaining lists dynamic on-canvas beyond solid and guides outside the art; previously minor: custom dictionary and Ignore All: `text.spelling.addWord`, `removeWord`, `changeWord`, `dictionary` and `ignoreAll`, #4936; previously minor: EPS import: embedded fonts (composite, Type 42, CID-keyed, Type 1, CFF FontSet) draw their glyphs; spell check engine: `text.spelling.check` and `text.spelling.suggest` on craft-proof, #4936; previously minor: floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; `.ai`/EPS type keeps its tab stops, and right-aligned lines with tabs lay out as the file's page, #6147; `.ai`/EPS type from the text document lays its lines out closer to the file's page, within limits, #6137; `.ai` and EPS import: older Art brush objects read; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, and a panel wheel turn cannot seed a canvas zoom glide, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Tools stays beside the canvas with left-side panels; new gradients follow document color mode; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; SVG CSS classes survive export and repeated import in all four styling modes (#2480); current-main integration retains event attributes and scripts; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; the canvas keeps selection outlines and anchors between frames; Indian-language hyphenation review and license allowlist, #4947; Stroke gradients: an arrowhead aligned to the tip is painted to the corners of its base, #5964; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Hindi catalog and contributor loanword preferences; full wording review in progress; Properties in Edit Artboards: a Transform section with the reference point above the Artboards section, #5219; the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links scrub their fields, #4088; an image zoomed in on is separated, colorized or proofed only where it shows (#4155); a document's first frame renders on the render worker, so opening a heavy file no longer freezes the window, #4155; Control bar Paragraph section with type selected, #5372; translating unchanged type reuses its glyph and character-stroke outlines; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged) > > Live Paint Bucket update (2026-11-12): one drag fills the faces crossed in the same group (#6373). > @@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ Moved from the ROADMAP's "Shipped so far" on 2026-10-10. Update it when a featur anchor or with Alt held over a path (convert) and over another open path's end (join). The Eyedropper has an original pipette glyph with its tip at the hotspot; Use Precise Cursors restores the crosshair. The same glyph feeds OS bitmaps and painted cursors. DPI/hotspot and preference checks in `cursors.rs` and `tests/prefs.rs` cover #1269; - actual OS display and Caps Lock remain unverified. Behaviour reference: [public tool-pointer documentation](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html#change_tool_pointers). Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed). A Precise Cursors command toggles the preference and can take a shortcut (#1663). On macOS the root document canvas now requests native AppKit delivery of the existing artwork, with aligned 1×/2× representations and a visible system fallback (#2292). `cursors/native_request` and `canvas` tests cover pixel/hotspot alignment, preferences and fallback routing; `mac_cursor` tests cover real AppKit image construction and the ownership protocol against a fake backend. The host releases on native-menu tracking and loss of eligibility; detached document viewports retain the visible system fallback. The pre-platform-output rectangle strategy, real focus/menu/handback behavior, mixed displays, Spotlight and native full-screen Spaces remain unverified; #2020 and #2292 are not declared closed. + actual OS display and Caps Lock remain unverified. Behaviour reference: [public tool-pointer documentation](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html#change_tool_pointers). Tool cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652; not run on Linux, #1645 stays open until confirmed). A Precise Cursors command toggles the preference and can take a shortcut (#1663). On macOS the root document canvas now requests native AppKit delivery of the existing artwork, with aligned 1×/2× representations and a visible system fallback (#2292). While the host owns the cursor it sets it again on every pass instead of comparing it with `NSCursor.currentCursor`, which is the app's last set cursor rather than the one on screen, so the tool's cursor no longer gives way to the system arrow when the pointer moves (#6362). `cursors/native_request` and `canvas` tests cover pixel/hotspot alignment, preferences and fallback routing; `mac_cursor` tests cover real AppKit image construction and the ownership protocol against a fake backend. The host releases on native-menu tracking and loss of eligibility; detached document viewports retain the visible system fallback. The pre-platform-output rectangle strategy, real focus/menu/handback behavior, mixed displays, Spotlight and native full-screen Spaces remain unverified; #2020 and #2292 are not declared closed. In a rotated view the resize and rotate cursors turn with the view, to the nearest 45°. - **Performance:** 20k shapes + 1k texts render in 27 ms per full-retina frame (7.8 ms zoomed), 7× faster than the first version. The UI thread never blocks. The web build is 7.1 MB gzipped. Print-size images (more than 512 MB decoded, up to 2 GB) draw in the canvas and in raster exports and can be trimmed with Crop Image; an image with a side past 65,535 px is shrunk to fit, a raster export says when an image could not be decoded, and Crop Image's trim leaves CMYK images alone (#1517). On Windows `vectorcraft-cli perf` reports the cores busy and, with `--deep`, its working set, and warns on a busy machine as it does on macOS and Linux (#1502). Hard-edge rendering, including the internal hard-edge frame of Art Optimized supersampled raster exports, draws a knockout element with one opaque solid fill once instead of erasing and adding it through separate layers. Analytical antialiasing keeps the existing compositor and rounding. Synthetic path/compound-hole tests compare exact pixels against the general knockout path across precision, supersampling, translucent parent groups and backdrop blending; translucent fills retain their knockout behavior. @@ -2077,6 +2077,7 @@ Edit › Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard, with the s | 2026-11-12 | minor | Type: kerning at the Type tool's caret at the start of a line (the text's, a paragraph's, or after a forced line break) sets the space before the character after it (`kerningBefore`), which moves it and the rest of its line; it did nothing at the text's start and kerned the invisible line break at a paragraph's (#5111). Scores and estimates unchanged. | | 2026-11-12 | minor | Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373). Scores and estimates unchanged. | | 2026-11-11 | minor | Rulers: the zero point dragged out of the rulers' corner snaps as a drawn point does (Smart Guides, Snap to Point and the ruler guides, pixels, the grid); evidence updated; scores unchanged. | +| 2026-11-11 | minor | Interim macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292): the tool's cursor stays after the pointer moves (#6362); tool cursors evidence updated; scores and hours unchanged. | | 2026-11-11 | minor | Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects (#6404); scores and estimates unchanged. | | 2026-11-11 | minor | Envelopes: with Distort Appearance, type's strokes (characters' and appearance) paint along the bent glyph outlines at their own weight, as users' `.ai` files draw them; paths' strokes, geometry effects, gradients and patterns bend as before; also in an envelope inside an envelope; opacity masks bend as other art; Expand keeps type's strokes as strokes; the visual bounds of envelopes, blends and repeats and the reach of symbol art count type's character strokes as type's own bounds do. Changes how VectorCraft's own envelopes of stroked type draw. Advanced art evidence and `.ai` import evidence updated (#6644); scores and estimates unchanged. | | 2026-11-11 | minor | Bundled content: built-in Energy Beams brush library (Laser Bolt, Plasma Arc, Charge Wave, Spark Trail); brush libraries evidence updated; ~44% → ~46%; more built-in brush libraries remain. | diff --git a/docs/ui-parity.md b/docs/ui-parity.md index dbe69b7603..f5e985e01d 100644 --- a/docs/ui-parity.md +++ b/docs/ui-parity.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # UI and interaction parity -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar; previously minor: Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged) +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-12 · **Change:** minor (macOS: the canvas cursor stays after the pointer moves, #6362; scores and estimates unchanged; previously minor: Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar; previously minor: Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does; previously minor: Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373); previously: #6404: transform-aware Eyedropper character copying; scores and estimates unchanged; previously: Outline view: images and gradient meshes are picked on what Outline draws, so a click inside them reaches the path behind, #6437; previously minor: a middle-click on a document tab closes it, #6506; previously minor: Blob Brush: a round tip's preview is the outline of the area it adds, round at both ends, as the stroke it commits (#4343); scores and estimates unchanged; previously:; ruler double-click adds a guide at the pointer, #5239; G5: Inventory Icons built-in symbol library (four built-ins); previously minor: files that record no units open in Preferences › Units › General, #5820; previously minor: interim macOS cursor delivery, #2292; native validation pending; scores and estimates unchanged; Control bar › Snapping includes the existing Snap to Glyph and Alignment Guides toggles (#6164); scores and estimates unchanged; floating tab groups collapse into the side icon rail and opened rail panels fold back into it, #5925 in part; numeric fields step on wheel hover without taking keyboard focus, #5949; Character Styles panel: a double-click on a style's row opens its Character Style Options; the dialog keeps a fixed width and scrolls its sections, so its buttons stay on screen; Selection QoL: marquee modes and visible feedback, #5313; #3380 deletion-only review follow-up: independent survivors keep gradient placement, owned subpaths avoid discarded copies, and contracts/status/evidence are clarified; endpoint highlighting remains open; scores and estimates unchanged; Drop Shadow and glow dialogs: spinner arrows, #5367, #5368; Stroke Weight Up and Down shortcuts, #5797; Layers: Rename (`ui.rename`) opens the name field of the selected layer, group or object, #5324; Properties in Edit Artboards: Transform section above the Artboards section, #5219; scrubby labels: the Control bar's Stroke: and Opacity: links and the Properties panel's Stroke link scrub their fields, #4088; Properties: Quick Actions has Repeat Options for one selected repeat, #5181; Direct Selection: Shift-click picks several blend spine points, which drag together, #5285; Direct Selection: Cmd/Ctrl held lends the Selection tool and shows its bounding box, #3901; Join tool trims two crossing open paths and joins them at the crossing, #5844; Control bar: Paragraph: link and Align left/center/right while type is selected, #5372; shape tools: a press on the selection's centre point moves it and one in the rotate zone outside a box corner turns it, #5477; scores and estimates unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; Units › East Asian Type acts, with Q and Ha units; scores unchanged) > > Vector Halftone preview update (2026-11-10): temporary dot selection marks are hidden, and the bounding box stays available (#6369). > @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ tools, never checked side by side) isn't captured row by row. | Tool double-click opens its options | done | | | Per-platform mapping (Cmd ↔ Ctrl, Option ↔ Alt) | done | | | Eyedropper cursor; Use Precise Cursors | partial | original pipette at the sampling tip, distinct from the precise crosshair at five DPI scales (#1269); OS cursor display unverified; while Caps Lock is on, the tools that Use Precise Cursors changes show the crosshair, and the saved preference does not change (the desktop app reads the lock state on macOS, Windows and Linux X11, not on native Wayland; `view.capsLock` reads or sets it); a Use Precise Cursors command toggles the preference and can take a shortcut (#1663); cursors are painted into the window on Wayland (#1652, not run on Linux) | -| macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292) | partial | The UI prepares the existing glyphs as aligned 1×/2× RGBA requests; the desktop host builds AppKit cursors and owns cursor rectangles for the root document window. Detached document viewports and requests without a usable native bitmap retain the visible system fallback; precise-cursor and UI-scale preferences retained. Headless regressions cover routing, pixels/hotspots and lifecycle; native focus/menu/handback timing, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Wayland still paints its glyphs. | +| macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292) | partial | The UI prepares the existing glyphs as aligned 1×/2× RGBA requests; the desktop host builds AppKit cursors and owns cursor rectangles for the root document window. While it owns the cursor, the host sets it again on every pass, so the tool's cursor stays when the pointer moves (#6362). Detached document viewports and requests without a usable native bitmap retain the visible system fallback; precise-cursor and UI-scale preferences retained. Headless regressions cover routing, pixels/hotspots and lifecycle; native focus/menu/handback timing, mixed displays, Spotlight and full-screen Spaces remain unverified. Wayland still paints its glyphs. | | Every tool's modifiers checked against the shortcut reference | missing | this is the fidelity pass | ## Keyboard shortcuts @@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ before release (#6373). [Paint faces and edges](https://helpx.adobe.com/illustra | 2026-11-12 | minor | Remove Background for a selected image in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties › Quick Actions and the Control bar, which runs at once with its defaults. Scores and estimates unchanged. | | 2026-11-12 | minor | Live Paint Bucket fills faces crossed in one drag (#6373). Scores and estimates unchanged. | | 2026-11-11 | minor | Ruler origin: the corner drag snaps as a drawn point does, onto the art's and the artboards' anchors, centres, edges and paths, and with Snap to Point along the ruler guides; scores and estimates unchanged | +| 2026-11-11 | minor | macOS canvas cursor delivery (#2292): while the host owns the cursor it sets it again on every pass, so the tool's cursor stays after the pointer moves (#6362); `mac_cursor` ownership test updated; scores and estimates unchanged. | | 2026-11-11 | minor | Eyedropper copies effective character dimensions between transformed text objects (#6404); scores and estimates unchanged. | | 2026-11-11 | minor | Outline view: a click on a path's outline selects it through an image or a gradient mesh in front, which Outline draws as a frame or mesh lines (#6437). | | 2026-11-11 | minor | A middle-click on a document tab (or its ×) closes it as the × does; closing a document's last view with unsaved changes asks to save first (#6506). VectorCraft addition; scores and estimates unchanged. |