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Merge pull request #7843 from MMexicann/patch-2
docs(G6): complete the control method reference
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# Control protocol
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> **Last updated:** 2026-11-07 · **Change:** text style commands take a feature with a value (`"features": ["salt=2"]`), the font's alternate number, and shape runs that differ only in features as one piece of text; previously: Confining file access refuses a `:` in a name after the drive on Windows, an NTFS alternate data stream such as `x.svg:evil` (#3604); previously: Object → Expand… dimmed while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089); previously: brush library panels (`window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`); previously: Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with; its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732); previously: panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the parameters of `window.panel.float` and `window.panel.dock`; previously: `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG cap and its path-plus-data downgrade; symbol library panels (`window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`); synthetic input budgets (#1709); bounded transport waits (#1726).
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> **Last updated:** 2026-11-15 · **Change:** completed the `ui.resize` and `ui.focus` entries and removed a duplicate `ui.render` row; previously: text style commands take a feature with a value (`"features": ["salt=2"]`), the font's alternate number, and shape runs that differ only in features as one piece of text; previously: Confining file access refuses a `:` in a name after the drive on Windows, an NTFS alternate data stream such as `x.svg:evil` (#3604); previously: Object → Expand… dimmed while the selection has an appearance Expand Appearance expands (`object.expand.info`'s `appearance`, #3089); previously: brush library panels (`window.brushLibrary`, `window.brushLibrary.other`, `ui.saveBrushLibrary`); previously: Transform Each opens on the values it was last confirmed with; its Copy button confirms with `copy: true` (#1732); previously: panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the parameters of `window.panel.float` and `window.panel.dock`; previously: `ui.screenshot`'s 64 MiB inline-PNG cap and its path-plus-data downgrade; symbol library panels (`window.symbolLibrary`, `window.symbolLibrary.other`, `ui.saveSymbolLibrary`); synthetic input budgets (#1709); bounded transport waits (#1726).
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`vectorcraft --control <port>` listens on `127.0.0.1:<port>` (loopback only). The port must be a number
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from 1 to 65535 (`--control=<port>` works too), given once; otherwise the app prints an error and exits
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| `ui.dialog.set` / `.confirm` / `.cancel` | `{field, value, action?}` or `{fields: [{field, value}…], action?}` | fill and submit the open dialog. `ui.dialog.set` takes the fields the dialog has (`ui.inspect`) other than its `__` fields, the `__` fields that are controls of the dialog (such as `__section` and `__allArtboards` in Save PDF, `__constrain` in Transform Each and the shape dialogs, and `__search` and `__category` in Preferences; Save PDF's and Print's `__savePresetAs`, the preset name, only while Save Preset… asks for it, since OK then saves a preset), `discard` on a dialog with a discard button, `preview` on one with a live preview, the fields that the dialog reads but adds only when a control changes (such as `searchFolder`, or `copy` in the Transform dialogs), and the fields it passes to the command it runs: every parameter of the `command` dialog's command (`ui.paramDialog`), and the `textureImage` that Load Texture… sets in the Glass, Texturizer and Rough Pastels effects; any other field is an error that lists the dialog's fields, and the dialog stays as it was. Any other `__` field, held or not, holds what the dialog's OK acts on (such as the `__command` and `__params` of a `confirm` or `command` dialog) or the dialog's own state: setting it is the error "the `<kind>` dialog cannot set protected field `<field>`", and the dialog stays as it was. `fields` sets the list (at most 256 items) in order (a missing `value` is `null`) and checks every item first: when one is refused, the call is an error and no field changes. `action: "confirm"` or `"cancel"` on `ui.dialog.set` then confirms or cancels the same dialog in the same request, as `ui.dialog.confirm` and `ui.dialog.cancel` do, and the reply is `{dialog, result}`: the dialog after the fields were set and the reply to confirm (`null` for cancel); any other `action` is an error and no field changes |
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| `ui.screenshot` | `{path?, data?}` | capture the window (PNG), written to `path`; `data: true` sends it back as `pngBase64` too. The inline PNG is capped at 64 MiB: with a `path` the file is still written and `pngBase64` is omitted when the image is larger, while a path-less `data: true` request fails if either the raw RGBA image or the encoded PNG exceeds the cap. Needs a presented frame: with the screen locked or the window minimized/covered it fails after ~8 s with an explanatory error |
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| `ui.render` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, data?, traceViews?}` | render an artboard headlessly (PNG with the pixels of `app.export {format: "png", background: "white"}` at the same scale; `artboard`: its 0-based index, default the first; `traceViews: true`: Image Trace objects draw in their View, as on the canvas, instead of their tracing result): written to `path`, else (or with `data: true` as well) sent back as `pngBase64` |
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| `ui.render` | `{path?, scale?, artboard?, data?}` | render an artboard headlessly (PNG with the pixels of `app.export {format: "png", background: "white"}` at the same scale; `artboard`: its 0-based index, default the first): written to `path`, else (or with `data: true` as well) sent back as `pngBase64` |
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| `ui.resize` / `ui.focus` | | |
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| `ui.resize` | `{width?, height?}` | request the window's inner size; omitted or null `width` and `height` default to 1440 and 900. Returns `null` |
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| `ui.focus` | `{}` | request keyboard focus for the window. Returns `null` |
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| `app.open` / `app.save` / `app.export` / `app.quit` | `{path, importer?, params?}` / `{path?}` / `{path?, format?, artboard?, range?, scale?, …}` | `app.open` reads every format `document.open` reads (see `document.formats`) and returns its result (`{index, title, format, warnings, …}`; `warnings` say what didn't come in as it was, such as an EPS shown as its preview image and why its PostScript couldn't be read), or null when a dialog asks first or a library loads. The status bar (`ui.inspect` → `ui.status`), after a line about the document's linked files when there is one (Missing linked files below), counts the `warnings` and names the first that says reading the file left something out (the notes that make Save ask before writing over it), else the first; with several, hovering it lists them in that order, as many as fit in the window (at most 30), then how many more. After `app.save`, and `app.export` with a `path`, the status bar counts the reply's `warnings` and names the first, and with several, hovering it lists them in the reply's order (a save's notes start with what the format loses). With `importer` (an importer plug-in's format id, `plugin.<id>`) it runs `file.openWith`: the file opens with that importer, also when a built-in format reads its extension, with the importer's parameters `params` (their defaults when omitted; no dialog asks for them). Without `importer`, `params` go to the importer that opens the file, and a built-in format does not read them. `app.export` encodes through the engine's `document.export` (same options; the document keeps its path) and writes `path` through the host; without `path` it returns `{dataBase64, format, bytes}`, as headless mode does. It refuses a key that no format takes, and an unknown key inside a PDF or EPS option object, before it writes anything (`docs/mcp.md`, Parameter keys). It accepts a key that only another format takes and does not use it: the reply's `warnings` and the status bar name the key ("`quality` was not used: PDF files don't read it"). `app.save` refuses a key that no save format takes, beside the path or in `options`, the same way. `app.quit`, `file.close` and `file.closeAll` first open a `saveChanges` dialog for each modified document (they return `{"pending": "saveChanges"}`): `ui.dialog.confirm` saves, `ui.dialog.set {field: "discard", value: true}` then confirm discards, `ui.dialog.cancel` cancels the whole close or quit |
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| `app.export` with `useArtboards` | `{path, useArtboards: true, range? \| artboards?, …}` | Export As: PNG, JPEG and WebP write one file per chosen artboard (default all; SVG does so for a `range`), `<path stem>-<artboard>.<ext>`, and return `{path, files: [path…]}`; a PDF keeps them as pages of `path`. `useArtboards: false` covers the bounds of the visible art. The menu's Export As… is `file.exportAs`: the `exportAs` dialog (`format`, `useArtboards`, `all`, `range`), then a save dialog and the format's options: `pngOptions` / `jpgOptions` / `webpOptions`, `svgOptions`, or `savePdf` for a PDF |
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| `ui.dialog.*` on `gradientStop` | `{field: "color" \| "opacity" \| "location", value}` | double-clicking a stop on the Gradient tool's annotator opens its popover (fields `index`, `x`, `y`, `tab`); set `color` (hex), `opacity` or `location` (percentages) and `ui.dialog.confirm` to apply them to the selected stop. `gradient.selectStop {index}` picks the stop the annotator, the panels and Delete/←/→ (`ui.key`) act on |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-11-15 | minor | Completed the `ui.resize` defaults and `ui.focus` contract; kept one `ui.render` entry, including `traceViews`. Documentation only. |
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| 2026-11-07 | minor | Documented OpenType feature values in text commands (`"salt=2"`, the font's alternate number) and that runs differing only in features shape as one piece of text. |
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| 2026-10-31 | minor | Confining file access: on Windows a `:` in a name after the drive (an NTFS alternate data stream) is refused with the device names (#3604). |
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| 2026-10-25 | minor | Panel docking on craft-ui's layout: `ui.docking`, the floating and dock parameters, native floating windows. |
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