The bar's text buttons (Edit Path, Duplicate, Type on a Path Options and
the others) were painted labels on a click area with no accessible name,
so a screen reader announced them without one. Each button now reports
its label as a button, as the Home screen's file rows do.
A window-close request while a script waits at its alert, confirm or
prompt opens the quit question over that dialog, and Cancel shows the
script's dialog again. When the run then ended another way (script.stop,
or the run finishing), the quit question stayed open, and Cancel showed
a dialog for a script that was no longer running.
The running-script poll now closes the quit question once the run ends,
and forgets the script's dialog under it once the run no longer waits at
that dialog.
File › Scripts ran an installed script as source text, so the run had no
file: an #include line ended it with "script file read refused", and
$.evalFile was refused too. The menu now checks the script as before and
runs it with script.run {path}, as docs/mcp.md describes, so its
included files and the files $.evalFile runs are read beside it.
An out-of-range or non-numeric tint in Character Style Options and New
Character Style gave "Tint must be a number from 0 to 100" for both
fields, so the message did not say which of the two to correct. It now
names "Fill Tint" or "Stroke Tint", the names the two fields carry.
The two Tint fields in the Character Color section were both named
"Tint", so a screen reader gave no way to tell the Fill field from the
Stroke one. They are now named "Fill Tint" and "Stroke Tint"; the
visible caption stays "Tint". The names have rows in every catalog, and
a test checks both names in Character Style Options and New Character
Style.
alert(message[, title, errorIcon]), confirm(message[, noAsDflt, title])
and prompt(message, preset[, title]) are globals in a script run. In the
app the run waits at the call for the person's answer, spends no
instructions while it waits, and every dialog has Stop, which ends the
run and puts every document back. A run over MCP or the command line
takes its answers in order from script.run's answers, a list of
{kind, value} records; a missing, mismatched or unused answer ends the
run. The report lists each dialog with its answer in dialogs, with
dialogCount and dialogsTruncated.
The interpreter gains a host call that waits at the call for its
result, from the script's own code only; a dialog called in a callback
of a built-in, a getter or a conversion throws in the app.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A linear dimension clicked from an anchor to a point that is not an
anchor (a point on a segment, or a point a Smart Guide gave) followed
the art at the anchor end only, so scaling the art turned it into a
long slanted dimension.
- A point on a segment is stored by its curve parameter on that
segment, and stays on it when the segment's anchors or handles are
edited.
- Any other point is stored against anchors (and, for a path whose
anchors lie on one line, handles) of the path under it, or of the
path at the other end, and moves, scales, turns and reflects with
that path. Beside a path whose anchors and handles all lie on one
line, such as a straight line, it keeps its distance along and
across the path: a reflection moves it as a half turn does, and a
scale that is not uniform moves it as a uniform scale does.
- When linked art is reflected, a linear dimension's line goes to the
reflected side, except for art whose anchors and handles lie on one
line.
- Deleting the art, changing its anchor count or whether it is closed,
turning an angle's arm into a curve, or making a measured circle or
arc no longer circular leaves the dimension where it was, no longer
linked, instead of removing it. Undo links it again.
Docs: docs/dimensions.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The text fields and menus of the Basic Character Formats, Advanced
Character Formats, Character Color and OpenType Features sections, and
the Style Name field of Character Style Options, are now named by the
label beside them, so screen readers announce them. This covers both
Character Style Options and New Character Style, which share the
sections. The New Character Style UI test runs with the accessibility
check on again, and a new test opens every section of both dialogs and
checks that no input is unnamed.
A popup measures its list on the first frame, when the scroll area does
not yet show its bar. When the bar then appeared, its column took its
width from the items, and the widest label wrapped onto two lines:
Distort & Transform in the Add New Effect menu, and Black and White Logo
in the Image Trace presets, in short windows.
menu_scroll now lays the items out at least as wide as on the popup's
first frame, so the bar's column widens the popup instead. That width
is kept until the popup closes and is never wider than the window has
room for. The items are laid out in the same child Ui on every frame,
so their ids do not change when the width does.
Each artboard can carry a guide label: one of the layer colors or a
custom RGB. Guides that belong to an artboard draw in its label color,
and guides without an artboard, or on an artboard without a label, keep
the guide color from the preferences. Selected guides still draw in the
selection color.
- Artboard Options has a Guide Label row (None, the layer colors with
swatches, or Custom with a color swatch).
- artboard.new and artboard.setProps take guideLabel: null, a layer
color's name, or #rrggbb. Any other value is an error. The inspect
summary lists guideLabel when one is set.
- The native format saves the label and skips it when unset; a preset
index outside the layer colors reads as no label.
- artboard.setProps no longer adds an undo step when nothing changes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
When File › Scripts runs a listed script that is no longer in the Scripts folder, the folder is read again on a thread. That read now has the window's context, so it asks for a frame when it ends and an idle window takes in the new listing (and the macOS menu bar follows it) without waiting for the next input event.
ui.runInstalledScript runs a .js or .jsx file in the Scripts folder or in a
subfolder at most 4 levels below it, whether or not a capped listing read
that subfolder. The params text now says so instead of naming only listed
subfolders.
The panel's note and the doc comment on ui.copyScriptConsole now say the
count of dropped and cut lines appears only when there are any, and the
returned lines count leaves that line out.
A copy of every Script Console line starts with the count of dropped and
cut lines only when there are any, and the returned lines count leaves
that line out. The end-line text is described without a code span that
ends in a space.
A scrolling menu list took its height from its own top down to the
window's bottom bars. egui picks a popup's side from its size on the
previous frame and moves a popup that does not fit back into the
window, so the list's height changed with where the popup was drawn.
In a short window the Add New Effect menu and other long menus moved
between two places while open, and a menu that did not fit crept a
few points per frame.
The list now takes its height from the room below and above the
button, row or point it opens from: below while that side leaves the
120 pt minimum, otherwise on the side with more room. A submenu
measures down from its row's top or up from its row's bottom. The
change is in menu_scroll, so it applies to every menu built on it.
A File menu opening or a failed ui.runInstalledScript while a read of the
Scripts folder was under way was dropped, so a script added after that
read passed the folder stayed unlisted until the next window activation
or File menu opening. The request is now kept and the next frame starts
the read once the running one is taken in.
Part of #6435. An optional VectorCraft feature: the Preferences dialog's
Export Preferences... saves the applied preferences to a JSON file (the
web build downloads it), and Import Preferences... applies such a file and
shows the imported values. They run the new commands prefs.export {path?}
and prefs.import {path | data}.
The file holds every preference prefs.list lists and the eyedropper,
perspectiveWidget, pathfinder and glyphSnap groups, without the four
folder preferences and saved presets. prefs.import reads at most 1 MB and
checks every value first: another format, a newer version, an unknown
preference, a bad value or a folder preference is an error, and nothing
changes. It keeps the open document's units, records no undo step, and is
refused as a command.batch step. prefs.set now rejects a group value that
is not an object.
File › Scripts now lists the .js and .jsx files of the Scripts folder next
to the preferences, each named after its file without the extension, with
each subfolder as a submenu, above Check Script… and Other Script…. The
help page describes this listing:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/automate-visualize-data/automate-actions/install-and-run-scripts.html
Choosing a listed script runs it through script.run without the warning
Other Script… shows. script.listInstalled returns the same listing, and
ui.runInstalledScript {path} runs one entry.
VectorCraft's own rules: the folder is read off the UI thread when the
app starts, when its window becomes active and when the File menu of the
window's menu bar opens; only names are read; links, junctions, hidden
and system entries are left out and checked again before a run; one read
stops at 2,048 entries, 512 scripts, 128 subfolders, 4 levels or 250 ms
and the menu then notes that some scripts were not listed. Under an
automation read root, script.listInstalled and ui.menu.list leave out a
folder outside the root.
#1183 (LloydNicholson) also proposed a Scripts menu listing a folder.
With View > Pixel Preview on, the tools still snapped to Smart Guides
and showed their guides; only the Object Highlighting outline was
hidden. Work with Smart Guides says Smart Guides cannot be used while
Snap to Grid or Pixel Preview is on.
ViewInfo has a pixel_preview field, and Session::with_tool_cx turns
Smart Guides (and Snap to Glyph, which needs them) off in the tools'
context while it is set. VectorcraftApp::view_info passes View > Pixel
Preview. View > Smart Guides keeps its setting.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md.
Scripts write to a new Script Console with $.write(...values) and
$.writeln(...values), each value as String(value) gives it. vc.log
entries, a run's uncaught error as name:line:column: message, and a
start, end and report line for each run go there too. The report line
gives the run's time, host calls and slowest commands.
- The console keeps at most 2,048 lines and 1 MiB of text, dropping the
oldest and counting what it dropped. A line is cut at 4,096 bytes and
a script's name at 256 bytes, with a count of cut lines. Line feeds,
carriage returns and CRLF break lines; other control characters show
as Unicode Control Pictures.
- script.run's result and scriptReport gain runTimeMs, timingAvailable,
hostCallCounts, slowestCommands and the run's own console. A failed
run's report has them too.
- script.console and script.console.clear read and empty the console;
ui.copyScriptConsole {first?, last?} copies lines as the panel shows
them.
- The panel lays out only the rows in view, selects with click and
Shift-click, and has Clear, Copy Selected and Copy All. Output goes on
while it is closed, and Clear works during a run.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/gaps.md, docs/roadmap.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
The canvas key did not change when a plug-in was installed, replaced or
removed, so the canvas kept showing the frame drawn with the old plug-in,
and a pan by whole pixels copied that frame's pixels next to strips drawn
with the new one.
The key now carries the plug-in revision of the last install or removal
after which the document draws a plug-in effect, in its layers, in a
symbol's or pattern's art, or in a brush's art. The canvas looks through a
document once after each install or removal; a document without a plug-in
effect keeps its key.
A linear dimension between two clicked points, or dragged out from a
segment, always measured the straight distance between its points and
drew its line parallel to them, so two points at different heights gave
only a slanted dimension. The linear dimensions help describes aligned,
horizontal and vertical linear dimensions: after the second click,
clicking again gives an aligned one and moving the pointer gives a
horizontal or vertical one.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/measure-and-align/plot-and-measure/plot-linear-dimensions-of-objects.html
While a linear dimension is being placed, the pointer's position sets
whether it is aligned, horizontal or vertical. The rule is VectorCraft's
own. With the pointer beside the two points (the nearest point of the
line through them lies between them) or on that line, the dimension is
aligned. Past either point, the line through the points and the
perpendicular through that point bound a quarter on each side of the
line. The quarter that holds the direction straight up or down gives
the horizontal distance, and the quarter that holds the direction
straight left or right gives the vertical distance. A click within
reach of the second point, or of where the pointer was for the second
click, places it aligned. Points on one horizontal or vertical line
give an aligned dimension. The dimension stays linked to the anchors it
measures.
- Dimension recipes carry an orientation (aligned by default; files
without it open as before). The line runs along the axis, and each
extension line runs from its point to it.
- dimension.create and dimension.update take orientation: aligned,
horizontal or vertical, for linear dimensions only. Any other value
is an error. A new orientation keeps the line on the side of the
points it was on, and an update that changes nothing records no
undo step.
- A horizontal or vertical dimension keeps its orientation when it or
the art it measures turns, and shows 0 when its points come into line
across its axis. A line that lay outside the points stays outside
them after a turn.
- The hint bar names the two-click placement.
Docs: docs/dimensions.md, the Evidence list in docs/target-app-parity.md.
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