Window › Color Wheel opens a new panel: the Fill and Stroke proxy
beside a hue ring around a square with saturation across and
brightness up at the ring's hue. It edits what the Color panel's
sliders edit (the active proxy's color, the selected gradient stop or
freeform point) through the same paint commands, and a drag is one
undo step. Alt paints the other proxy, and Shift steps the ring by
45°. The Color panel does not change.
A pick is display sRGB and goes into the working RGB space through the
color settings. An RGB, CMYK or Lab color keeps its model, and a Gray
color or a tint of a global swatch becomes a process color in the
document's color mode. The wheel keeps the hue of the last pick while
the objects, the proxy and the color are unchanged, so a drag through
a gray and back keeps the hue.
A press gives the ring or the square the keyboard focus. The arrow
keys then step the hue by 1° or the saturation and brightness by 1%.
With Shift a press steps ten times as far, and with Cmd/Ctrl it steps
a tenth as far. Each press makes one undo step, and Escape or a click
elsewhere gives the keys back to the tools. Screen readers
read the ring as a slider from 0 to 360 with increment, decrement and
set-value actions, and the square as its name and both values. The
Color Picker's color field is the same widget, so it takes the same
keys and reports its name and values.
Color::to_hsb and Color::from_hsb now call the new rgb_to_hsb and
hsb_to_rgb, which the panel uses on display sRGB numbers.
On Linux and the BSDs, VECTORCRAFT_TITLEBAR=app now uses the app bar as the title bar with System Title Bar on. Before, System Title Bar kept the desktop's frame while the Preferences note said the variable chooses the title bar.
While the variable is set, Preferences dims System Title Bar, and the note that System Title Bar takes precedence over VectorCraft Title Bar on Every Desktop does not show. macOS and Windows do not read the variable.
app.open with params and no importer ran file.open with the path alone, so the desktop app ran the importer on its defaults while headless app.open passed the params to document.open. file.open now carries params to the importer that opens the file.
The importer parameters test installs its module with replace from the second pass on, as plugin.install requires. The permission table in docs/plugins.md lists doc.read for filter, effect and exporter.
The editing data of a .ai or .ait holds every artboard, so a multi-page
file has no pages to pick. Opening one now goes straight to it, as a
file carrying its VectorCraft document already does. The dialog stays
for PDFs, a .ai that is only a PDF, a password, and Place.
Docked Tools stays at the window's left edge again, outside any panels
docked on the left. Window › Toolbars › Keep Tools Beside the Canvas
(`window.toolsBesideCanvas {on?}`) docks it between those panels and the
canvas instead.
- The setting is its own field in the UI state and in workspaces, and a
missing field reads as off, so saved state and workspaces keep Tools at
the window's edge. Built-in workspaces have it off.
- Off, app.rs draws docked Tools before the docking layout, the canvas
reserves no width for it, and only the full-height window-edge strip
docks a floating Tools panel. On, the canvas panel draws it, the canvas
keeps room for it, and both the window edge and the canvas edge dock it
beside the canvas.
- Turning the setting off forgets the canvas-edge strip, so a strip laid
out while it was on does not dock Tools. A floating Tools panel stays
floating when the setting changes.
- `window.panel.dock {panel: "tools"}` docks Tools where the setting says.
- The menu label has a row in every catalog.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, the ROADMAP progress log and
docs/target-app-parity.md. The headline-numbers row and the paragraphs
under the status lines are gone, and scores are unchanged.
On Linux, when the desktop draws the window's frame (KDE, Sway,
Hyprland, COSMIC and X11 sessions), the app bar painted the brand mark
under the desktop's title bar unless System Title Bar was on. The mark
followed the live preference instead of the frame the window has.
The desktop app now records the frame it opened the window with
(VectorcraftApp::desktop_frame), and system_title_bar reads it. A
change to System Title Bar during a session no longer shows or hides
the mark; it changes with the frame at the next start. Embedders
without a window of their own keep the mark.
File › Open With asks for the parameters of an importer that declares
any, at their defaults, once the file is picked (dialog `pluginImport`),
and opens the file with the values set. `file.openWith`, `app.open` and
MCP's `open_file` take `params` and pass them to the importer;
`app.open` without them runs the importer on their defaults, with no
dialog. A file opened with Open With is added to Open Recent, as File ›
Open adds the files it opens.
open_file passes `importer` (an importer plug-in's format id,
plugin.<id>) on to app.open. Headless, it becomes document.open's
`importer`; in the app, app.open with `importer` runs file.openWith, so
the file opens with that importer as File > Open With does, also when a
built-in format reads its extension.
The Links panel's Relink... button and menu item open a Relink dialog
(ui.relinkDialog) with a Replace menu. Selected Instances relinks the
selected images and placed documents, as Relink did before. All
Instances also relinks every other object in the layers linked to the
same file. Missing Links from This Folder relinks the selection to the
chosen file, then every other missing link to the file of its name in
that file's folder, and the status bar names the files not there. Each
Link Separately asks for a file for each selected link in turn, one OK
each, and relinks them all at the last one: the dialog has one row per
linked file, and each selected embedded image gets a row of its own.
Every choice is one undo step.
links.relink takes scope: selected (default), all, missingInFolder
(with path) or each (with paths: [{ids, path}] in place of ids, path
and folder). A scope or paths that doesn't fit is an error and relinks
nothing. With copy, every file is read and checked before any is
copied, copies made before a failed copy are removed, and
missingInFolder looks for missing images only.
Docs: params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md. Catalog rows for the new labels and messages
in every catalog.
document.export, document.exportSelection, document.serialize, app.export
and file.export took {noSuchOption: true} and wrote the file with no
warning. They now refuse a key that no format lists in document.formats,
and name the nearest key when one is close. document.exportPdf,
document.pdfSettings and pdf.preset.save refuse a key PDF doesn't take,
document.exportEps one EPS doesn't take and document.exportDxf one DXF
doesn't take. Each refuses an unknown key inside an option object it takes,
such as marks.useDocumentBleed, and names its path.
A key that only another format reads, such as {format: pdf, quality: 80},
is still ignored: docs/mcp.md says one object can carry several formats'
options. The check runs for callers (the control channel, MCP, the CLI).
A journal or a recorded action isn't checked, and a saved PDF preset with
a key that is no longer read still loads.
document.formats now also lists PDF's thumbnails, fastWebView and
viewAfterSaving.
request, execute, commands and screenshot move onto the shared crate (storytold/craft-libs#413): a timeout on every call, the screenshot's PNG also in data, and docInspect and uiInspect beside them. A call the page gave up on gives up its request if the app has not started it, so the app skips it. openFile, captureDownloads, files, readFile and inspect stay VectorCraft's own, on the same object.
With the Artboard tool, the canvas context menu lists the entries of the
public Use the artboard context menu page in its order, in place of the
entries for objects and the view. Lock Artboards and Unlock Artboards are
two submenus. An entry that cannot run is left out, and Undo and Redo stay
dimmed. A right-click on an artboard that is not selected selects it alone
first, and the menu measures the art for Delete Empty Artboards and Fit to
Artwork Bounds once, at the right-click.
Cut, Copy, Duplicate Artboards, Rename, Delete Artboards, Lock Selected,
Unlock Selected, Fit to Artwork Bounds, Switch Orientation and Export act on
the artboards the tool has selected, else the active one. docs/mcp.md lists
what the other entries act on.
- artboard.rename renames in one undo step and numbers several names. The
menu's Rename opens a dialog that runs it, and the Artboards panel's name
field runs it too.
- artboard.switchOrientation swaps width and height and keeps the top-left
corner, skipping square and locked artboards.
- artboard.selectAll chooses the tool and selects every artboard.
- edit.paste takes artboardsAt, and the menu's Paste centers copied
artboards on the right-click's point.
- The menu's Cut and Copy run artboard.cut and artboard.copy. In the desktop
app those commands publish to the system clipboard, and the menu shows the
Cut and Copy shortcuts for them.
- artboard.fitToArt and the panel's name field record no undo step when
nothing changes.
artboard.duplicate, copy, cut, rename and switchOrientation take their
artboards from the tool's selection when a call names none. Each now records
them in the journal as selectedArtboards, which a replay reads and a recorded
action leaves out. The copy commands also record art. switchOrientation
records scaleArt, and it takes patterns and lockedAndHidden and records what
its artboard.setProps step resolved for them.
While the Artboard tool is in use, a command chosen from any menu or the
command palette moves the tool's selection as the Artboards panel does:
artboard.new makes the new artboard active, artboard.duplicate selects the
copies, and artboard.delete and artboard.deleteEmpty make a remaining
artboard active.
`Color::from_hex` reads `#rrggbbaa` and keeps only its first six digits, so
a `color` set to `#ff000080` through `ui.dialog.set` was applied as
`#ff0000` without an error by Tile Edge Color, Live Paint Selection Tool
Options, Live Paint Bucket Options and Gap Options.
- A new `checked` next to `resolve` in `dialogs/tile_edge_color.rs` gives
the existing "is not a colour" error for an 8-digit hex color, and
otherwise reads the color as `resolve` does. `resolve` is unchanged, so
the swatches the dialogs draw with it show such a color by its RGB as
before.
- Each of the four dialogs' OK checks the color with `checked` first, and
leaves the dialog open with nothing changed. Tile Edge Color and Gap
Options already refused `#rgba`, which `from_hex` does not read. Live
Paint Selection and Live Paint Bucket used to ignore a color they could
not read, such as `#f008`, and apply their other fields; their OK now
refuses it.
- With Preview on, Gap Options sends no color for a `#rrggbbaa` value, so
the groups keep their own color, and the previewed gaps draw in black.
Docs: the params text, docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md and
docs/target-app-parity.md.
Object > Expand with Object on now turns each symbol instance in the
selection, including one in a selected group or in a placed document's
art, into its art, as Break Link to Symbol places it. It goes one level
deep: the instances in that art stay instances. The art keeps the
instance's id and place in the stacking order, and Expand stays one
undo step.
- Instances with effects stay instances, and Expand Appearance bakes
them as before. Instances with an effect on a fill or stroke,
instances in perspective, and those in blends, repeats and Intertwine
groups stay instances.
- The art keeps the instance's opacity mask, as Break Link gives it.
- A hidden or locked instance's art stays hidden or locked.
- A placed document in an instance's art is expanded too.
- When the instances' art would make more than 1,000,000 objects, they
stay instances, the limit Break Link uses.
- The Fill and Stroke options (object.expand.info, and the Expand
dialog) count the fills, strokes and gradients in the art of those
instances, with a dynamic instance's own changes applied. The info
reports under symbolArt which of them only that art holds, and the
dialog enables those options only while Object is on.
Window › Toolbars › Manage Toolbars… and Manage Toolbars… in the All Tools
drawer's menu open a dialog that lists the toolbars made with New Toolbar.
A name typed for the selected toolbar renames it, + copies the selected
toolbar or, with none selected, makes a new one, and the trash can deletes
it (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tools.html, Manage toolbars).
VectorCraft's own details:
- A rename applies at Enter, when the text box loses focus, or at OK. The
name follows New Toolbar's rules: not empty, at most 200 characters, and
not another toolbar's in any case.
- A copy is called "<name> Copy" (then "<name> Copy 2"), shows a little
below the toolbar it copies and below earlier copies; a new toolbar is
called "Toolbar N".
- Each change applies at once; deleting also removes the groups torn off
the toolbar.
- When the typed name is refused, a click on +, the trash can or another
toolbar is not applied, so the name can be corrected. When the selected
toolbar is deleted elsewhere while the dialog is open, none is selected.
- Renaming or deleting a toolbar closes the All Tools drawer and a group's
flyout open on it; a change of case only leaves them open, and the Tools
panel's flyouts and other toolbars' stay open.
- Each change shows under Window › Toolbars and is kept with the workspace.
New commands: window.toolbar.manage, window.toolbar.rename,
window.toolbar.duplicate and window.toolbar.delete, with catalog rows for
their labels in every language.
Docs: control-protocol.md, gaps.md, target-app-parity.md, ui-parity.md.
Part of #1759
Per CodeRabbit on #5327: on Windows Edit Original looked for photocraft.exe
only on the PATH, but PhotoCraft's MSI installs it to ArtCraft\PhotoCraft
under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs (per user, the default) or Program Files (for
everyone), neither on the PATH. Look first at the path the installer
registers under App Paths (HKCU, then HKLM; `reg query`, as i18n reads the
locale, which also covers a folder chosen in setup), then those two default
folders, then the PATH. Each candidate must still be an .exe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per review on #5327: Preferences › File Handling › Edit Original With (an app
path and Choose…) becomes the checkbox Use System Defaults for Edit Original,
on by default. Off, Edit Original opens a raster image in the app that made
it, PhotoCraft, looked for only where it installs; any other file, or no
PhotoCraft, goes to the system's default app. The preference is a boolean, so
prefs.set over control or MCP can no longer name an executable. The label has
a row in all 26 catalogs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Preferences › File Handling › Edit Original With picks the app Links
panel › Edit Original opens a linked file in: System Default (as before),
PhotoCraft (found in /Applications or ~/Applications on macOS, on the
PATH elsewhere) or Other Application, with a path field and Choose….
The desktop host's new `open_file_with` service starts only an
application (an .app bundle on macOS, an .exe on Windows, an executable
file elsewhere), with the path as its only argument and never through a
shell. Edit Original still refuses control requests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Buttons beside the Edit tab's wheel switch between the smooth color wheel,
a segmented wheel of solid patches (24 hues by 5 saturations, its markers
moving as freely as on the smooth wheel) and color bars: one solid bar per
recolored color in row order, where a click selects a bar's row for the
color sliders and a drag moves the row without changing a color. The
dialog opens on the smooth wheel and keeps the choice while it is open;
the dialog field is `display` (`smooth`, `segmented`, `bars`).
View > Outline was one app-wide flag saved in the interface preferences,
so after Cmd+Y every later launch drew every opened or new document as
outlines, with no fills. The flag is now part of each document's view:
a document opens in Preview, each tab shows its own Outline or Preview,
and the setting is not saved at launch. An older preferences file that
holds the flag still loads, and its value is ignored.
The Outline command and ui.set's outline act on the active document and
are an error without one.
Save… in the Document Info panel menu now writes only the category the
panel shows, with Selection Only applied. With All Categories shown it
writes every category, as before. docInfo.save takes an optional
category (a document.info category id) and passes it to document.info.
The Edit tab's color mode menu offers Global Adjust, with Saturation,
Brightness, Temperature and Luminosity sliders from -100% to 100% that
open at 0%, which changes nothing. One slider changes every recolored
color, each one separately, in its own model; the rows keep their new
colors and the art previews the change. The Edit tab also shows the
color sliders of the selected new color in the other modes.
recolor.apply takes globalAdjust {saturation, brightness, temperature,
luminosity}. Excluded rows and colors no row holds stay as they are, a
rewritten color group takes the same change, and with Limit to Library
each row's new color takes it before it snaps to the library.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The color sliders now mark the row they edit with `model: "new"`
instead of a dialog-wide flag, and `recolor.apply` reads a row's own
`model` before the command's. Rows the sliders did not edit keep each
color's model, so with RGB art and a CMYK color group, a slider edit of
one row no longer turns the other rows' art CMYK. Another edit of the
row's new color, Reset and rows reduced again remove the mark, and
`recolor.randomize` moves it with its new color.
The Assign tab gets a Color Mode menu (HSB, RGB, CMYK, Lab, and Tint when
the row's new color is a spot color of the Limit to Library library) and
its sliders under the rows. They edit the first selected row's new color
and are disabled with no row selected. Once they have edited a color in a
mode, the preview and OK send recolor.apply with model "new", so the art
takes the color in that mode.
recolor.apply rows take an optional tint (percent, default 100): art linked
to the row's global or spot library swatch takes that share of its tint.
recolor.randomize keeps a row's tint.
With write root ...\out, a save to ...\out\x.svg:evil was accepted: it stays inside the root, but writes a hidden stream no folder listing shows. A ':' in any name after the drive is now refused with the device names. The check is a plain name test, so it is covered on every platform; the check-then-open race (item 1 of the report) is a documented limitation and is not touched.
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.
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