docs/gaps.md, docs/file-format-parity.md and docs/ui-parity.md still
listed the CNC preset as open after #5500 added it. They now name DXF
Options' Preset menu and dxfPreset: "cnc" on document.exportDxf; VCarve
QA stays open. The ui-parity row also no longer lists native CIRCLE/ARC
export as pending.
An approval question that a control request, MCP, injected input, or a
file dialog one of them opened leads to now keeps OK disabled and
refuses every confirm, a person's click included. The dialog says to
choose Object › Plug-ins › Install Plug-in…, and ui.installPlugin answers
approval: "personMustStartInstall". The person's own Install Plug-in…,
File › Open or drop inspects the module again and asks a new question
with its half-second delay.
The origin is fixed when the request is made and goes with a native
file dialog's deferred answer and the web picker's answers, which now
arrive apart from drops and from window.vectorcraft.openFile (always
automation). A question about taking another module's place now opens
in the approval dialog, and automation's replace: true no longer skips
it. A module that needs no approval still installs at once.
- Outside Windows a `\` stays part of a hidden library's or sent path's
file name; another platform's absolute path is still split on `\`.
- A hidden relative path is matched after leading `./` and `../` parts
only when they start the path, so `/work/./data/icon.svg` keeps its
text.
- `ui.inspect` and `ui.docking` replies are hidden once, so a library
at the top of the file system shows as `loaded/<file name>` with its
separator.
The Stroke panel menu's Edit Arrowheads… (stroke.arrowheads.edit) opens
Arrowheads.vectorcraft next to the preferences, creating it with one
example head when it is missing. Each symbol in the file is one head,
listed by name after the built-in heads in both arrowhead menus: it
points right, its registration point is the tip, and its height is drawn
as wide as the built-in heads. The file is read at startup and again
each time VectorCraft saves it; stroke.arrowheads.reload and
stroke.arrowheads.list read and list it.
Arrowhead gets a Custom variant, appended after the built-in names, that
carries the head's name and outline, so a document that uses one draws,
saves, reopens and exports it without the arrowheads file. stroke.set
takes {"custom": name} or the {"Custom": {name, path}} form that
document.inspect reports.
Part of #5421.
Convert To Point Type left Dynamic Text on when it turned Block area
type into point type. Point type has no Dynamic Text, but the flag was
saved, and converting the type back to area type turned Block on again
and fitted the lines to the new frame. The conversion now turns it off;
the point type keeps the sizes and leading Block wrote into the
characters, and the conversion is still one undo step.
- A name may hold \u{...} escapes with any number of hexadecimal digits
up to U+10FFFF. An empty, unclosed, out-of-range or surrogate escape is
not part of a name. Each \u{...} escape read in a name is reported as
syntax newer than ES3, with the escape as written.
- # followed by an escaped name start is one private name, also in the
code of an XML literal, and its escapes are read in the report
(this.#app is #app).
- A # and a name at the start of a line is a private name, not a
directive, when the name starts with an escape, or when the line is
inside braces and the name is not a directive's. A private name whose
decoded name would make the line a directive is reported as written.
- The identifier test against vectorcraft-js also compares braced
escapes.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The hover lists up to 30 notes, fewer when the window is small, and says how many were left out. The docs and command description said it lists them all.
Window > 3D and Materials > Quick Actions > Expand as Wireframes, and the
command effect.expandAsWireframes, replace each selected object that has a
visible 3D effect (Extrude & Bevel, Extrude & Bevel (Classic), Revolve,
Inflate or Rotate) with a group of paths: the edges of the faces the effect
draws for the object as it is turned and projected now.
- Each edge appears once. Edges that meet end to end form one path, closed
where it comes back to its start, and curved edges stay curves. Geometry
effects after the 3D effect reshape the edges as they reshape the drawn
surface.
- The paths have a 0.5 pt black stroke with round joins and no fill. The
group keeps the object's id, name, transparency, attributes, slice and
text wrap, and is selected. A layer stays a layer holding the edges.
- It is one undo step. Nothing selected, no visible 3D effect, a solid that
can't be built or is drawn as its source art, or more than 1,000,000 edges
in one object is an error, and the document does not change.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/three-d.md, docs/effects-parity.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
Fixes#6354
Window › Swatch Libraries › Patterns and the Swatches panel's library
menu gain a second built-in pattern library, Grit Textures, with eight
black textures on square grid tiles of 18 to 36 pt: Fine Grain, Coarse
Grit, Sand, Speckle, Stipple, Scratches, Sparse Flecks and Dense Flecks.
Each is drawn in code from a fixed seed, so it is the same every time.
Marks that reach past a tile edge are drawn on the next tile by the
tiling, so the tiles join without a seam.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, ROADMAP.
Window › Swatch Libraries › Gradients gains Organic Fades, a gradient
library of fifteen fades (ten linear, five radial). Each runs through
three to five unevenly spaced stops with off-center midpoints, mixes
with the Perceptual method, and thins out to transparent at the end of
a linear fade or at the edge of a radial one. The colors are computed
from VectorCraft's own OKLCH anchors.
The library also lists in the Swatches panel's library menu, in
swatch.library.list (category "gradients") and in the Gradient panel's
Presets. swatch.library.add keeps each fade's stops, opacities,
midpoints and method in RGB and CMYK documents.
The other built-in libraries are unchanged: their gradients still mix
with Classic and keep centered midpoints, and a test checks it.
- Gradient previews in the Swatch Libraries panel, the Gradient
panel's Presets menu, swatch tiles and the toolbar drew every stop
opaque. Each chip vertex now takes the sampled opacity as its alpha
(freeform points too), and a chip with any translucent vertex draws
a white and gray checkerboard under the gradient. Opaque gradients
draw as before.
- When the preferences are applied, a saved gradient preset whose name
matches a built-in preset, or an earlier saved preset, in any case,
is renamed to the first free "<name> N" (N from 2), so a saved
preset named like a new built-in fade stays listed and can be
applied and deleted.
Window > Brush Libraries > Dry Media (`dry-media`) holds four art brushes:
Chalk Grain, Graphite Pencil, Wax Crayon and Charcoal Dust. Each is 100 pt
of filled vector paths generated from a fixed seed with integer steps and
plain arithmetic, at most 80 paths and 500 anchors, stretched along the
path with Tints colorization. The chalk and crayon art has even-odd gaps
cut out of its band.
The names, sizes and art are VectorCraft's own. A new i18n test checks
that every complete catalog names each built-in brush library.
The Blend panel gets a Create Spine menu (Auto, Always, Never) under Make,
and object.blend.createSpine {mode?} sets or reads it. It is kept with the
preferences, is not an undo step and leaves blends already made as they are.
object.blend.make takes createSpine to choose for one new blend.
Auto and Always give every new blend a straight spine, as before. Never
makes a blend without one: its steps sit where a straight spine puts them,
object.blend.info reports hasSpine: false, easing is refused and dimmed,
Reverse Spine and the spine point commands refuse it, Release gives back
no spine path, and Replace Spine gives it a spine. A blend taking more keys
keeps whether it has a spine. Native files save noSpine; older files open
with their spines.
Builds on #5177 by adambelis.
The Graphic Styles library menu lists nine libraries. Painted and
Sketched follows Hand-Drawn and holds Washed Blue, Bristle Ochre,
Pastel Heather, Charcoal Shade, Ink Contour, Wet Ink and Fine Pen. Each
style is a solid fill, two with a 1 pt stroke, under one watercolor,
dry brush, rough pastels, charcoal, ink outlines, sumi-e or graphic pen
effect with every setting given. The library and style names have rows
in all 27 catalogs, and docs/mcp.md describes the library.
DXF Options gets Include Placed Images and Include Fill Hatches, and
document.exportDxf and document.export {format: dxf} take
includeImages and includeHatches. Both are VectorCraft's own options
and default to true, so Custom exports write what they wrote before.
- includeImages: false writes no IMAGE entity, IMAGEDEF, reactor or
linked file for a placed image, and does not decode its pixels.
- includeHatches: false writes each filled area's outlines without the
solid HATCH after them.
- Each adds one note to warnings when it left something out. R12,
which has neither, keeps its own notes.
- The CNC / CAM preset sets both to false, so its drawing holds the
cutting paths alone; the options given still override it, and
changing either checkbox shows Custom.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
ui.pointer and the headless pointer call read a pointer event's pressure,
holdMs, tiltX, tiltY and rotation with a default for any value that was not a
number, and treated any space other than screen as document space. Each event
is now checked before the packet runs: those values must be numbers and space
must be doc or screen, with null keeping the default. docs/mcp.md says so.
xml.xpath(expression[, variables]) evaluates an XPath 1.0 expression
(https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116/) with the XML value as
the context node and returns the selected nodes as an XMLList, in
document order and without repeats. On an XMLList the expression runs
on each element in turn, and the results are joined.
- All 13 axes and the 27 core functions. id() selects nothing, since
E4X trees carry no DTD data.
- Each property of `variables` binds the variable of its name. A
prefix in a name test resolves through the context element's
in-scope namespaces; `xml` is always bound.
- An expression that breaks the grammar gives a SyntaxError. An
unknown function, a wrong argument count, an unbound prefix or
variable, a result that is not a node-set, and a result that holds
the root or a namespace node give a TypeError.
- The parser and the evaluator keep their state on their own stacks,
so expressions of any depth use no native stack; nesting past
Options::max_depth gives "nesting too deep". Traversal stacks, node
lists, strings and the values that string functions build count
against the heap limit, and every node visited and string read takes
fuel.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md (E4X line), crate doc in lib.rs.
A save or an export with several notes named only the first of them in
the status bar, with the count, and the others could not be seen. The
status bar now keeps every note of a save or an export for the status
message's hover, as it does for an open's notes since #6752: resting
the pointer on the message lists them in the order the reply gives them
(a save's notes start with what the format loses), and screen readers
receive the list after the message. The status text is unchanged.
This covers Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save as Template, Save a
Timestamped Copy, Save as PDF, Export As, Export Selection, Export for
Screens, Asset Export, Save for Web, Preview in Browser, Save for Office
Documents, Text Export Options, a print to a file and the CSS Properties
panel's export. The open, the saves and the exports read a reply's notes
through one helper.
Docs: docs/mcp.md and the css.exportFile params text,
docs/control-protocol.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
VectorCraft could open and place HP-GL plot files but not write them,
so art for a pen plotter or a vinyl cutter had to go through another
program.
Export As, document.export and Export Selection now write HP-GL.
vectorcraft_cad::hpgl::export draws each visible path once along its
own line: a filled shape is its closed outline and a stroked path its
center line. Type is drawn as glyph outlines, a gradient mesh as its
outline, and a symbol instance as its art with its effects and the
instance's stain. Clipping masks cut the art they clip, and the art is
cut at the artboard's edges. Hidden and non-printing layers, hidden objects,
objects at 0% opacity, template layers, guides and placed images are
left out. Coordinates are plotter units (1016 to the inch, y up) from
the artboard's bottom-left corner or its center, and art more than
8,388,607 units from the origin is cut off.
Each color is a pen, in the order the plot first draws in it (up to
255), or a pen table maps each path to the pen of the nearest color.
With Use Artboards every file of the export uses the same numbering.
The pens draw in turn, each in paint order or, with sortPaths, nearest
path first. Curves are flattened to curveTolerance (0.1 pt by default).
hpglVersion "hpgl" writes IN, SP, PU and PD; "hpgl2" also writes the
palette (NP, PC) and each pen's paths as one encoded polyline (PE).
Options are checked, and Export As writes the file with the defaults.
Plots read back by the HP-GL reader give the same lines.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md, docs/file-format-parity.md,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
A client confined with --automation-read-root could learn paths it was
not given and may not read from the replies of several commands. Each
one now names such a path only when no read roots are in force or the
path is inside them:
- document.save and file.save, file.saveAs, file.saveCopy and
file.saveAsTemplate (app.save and engine.execute) without a path:
the document's own file, the files of separate artboards and linked
files are left out or named by file name, and the folder a save
suggests is left out.
- document.exportForScreens with the folder of an exportPreset: the
ZIP path is left out and files are relative to that folder.
- document.exportSettings, document.exportPresets.list and
document.exportPresets.export: a kept folder outside the read roots
is left out of the reply and of the presets file the export writes.
- file.package: warnings, missingLinks and the report name a file
outside the read roots by its file name. A link's stored path, read
from the document's folder when it is relative, decides, also when
its file was found under another path.
- document.info: an image linked to a file outside the read roots has
link null, and its Linked Images row names the file alone.
docs/mcp.md and the params text describe the rule.
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