Kerning read one pair of parentheses around its text only while it
showed an automatic value as (12), so typing (10+5) over a manual value
committed nothing. spin_kerning now reads that pair in both states;
the field still shows parentheses only for an automatic value, and
(10+5)*2 is still refused.
The opening tests waited 400 or 500 ms of wall-clock time for files read off
the UI thread, and up to 30 s in loops that polled until the queue emptied.
Under load a read could take longer, and
a_file_that_opens_and_asks_holds_back_the_next_one_ready failed.
wait_read now blocks on each pending file's own result channel and keeps the
result for poll, and open_ready waits and then polls once. The background save
in long_operation_busy_while_a_file_opens_or_a_background_save_runs waits with
background::wait_all, and its job waits on the release channel without a
timeout. Shipped code is unchanged.
On macOS the menu bar is native and is read again only when its state
hash changes. Type > Font now lists the loaded fonts until the installed
ones are scanned, so the hash takes the font generation and whether the
scan has ended. The tests that wait for process-wide generations to
hold still wait for the fonts too.
The menu bar builds Type > Font in every frame, the first included, and
its family list waited for the scan of every installed font. When that
scan took longer than the 20 s first-frame watchdog (thousands of fonts
on a slow disk, or each file checked by antivirus), the app took the
graphics adapter for hung and started again without it, until none was
left and no window ever showed.
The menu now lists the fonts already loaded until the scan ends, then
all of them (FontDb::menu_family_list_now, installed_fonts_ready).
text.tabs.set and text.tabs.clear return without an edit when every
targeted paragraph already holds the stops. A Ctrl-drag that the 0 pt
bound keeps from moving, or a drag released where it started, no longer
adds an undo step that changes nothing. When one targeted paragraph
holds other stops, the command still sets them all.
appearance.addFill copies the active fill row only when the call has no
`ids`, no `id` and no `target: "contents"`; the params text now names
`id` too. appearance.addStroke gives the new stroke at least 1 pt, so a
0.5 pt top stroke gives a 1 pt stroke; the params text now says so.
Tests pin both: `id` alone leaves the active row alone and puts the new
fill on top, and Add New Stroke on a 0.5 pt stroke adds a 1 pt one.
OK in Shape Builder Tool Options sent highlightColor to tool.setOption,
which keeps only #rrggbb, so #ff000080 was applied as #ff0000 with no
error. OK now gives the same error as the Live Paint tool options for a
hex color with an alpha part (#rrggbbaa or #rgba), the dialog stays open
and the tool's options do not change. The tool.options params text,
docs/mcp.md and the progress doc say so.
A command bound to plain Escape no longer runs when that Escape
cancels a floating Tools panel move or a ruler-origin drag, nor on the
key repeats while Escape stays held. The next separate Escape press
runs it as before. A test binds Select None to Escape and holds Escape
through both cancels.
File > Package stored its status line in the interface language, so after
a language switch the status bar kept the old language, and the control
channel and MCP read a translated message. The status line and its notes
are now English, and only the "Package created" dialog is translated when
it is shown. Each catalog gets message rows for the notes, so the status
bar translates them too. On the desktop, where the dialog names every font
left out, a long font list is cut short in the status line so the line
stays short enough to translate.
A number typed into the Kerning field after Optical keeps the Optical
flag on the type, and the manual value sets the spacing. The Kerning
menu still checked Optical. It now checks neither Auto nor Optical
while a manual value is set.
A freeform gradient whose field has no points of its own takes its
colors from the stops, so spot-linked stops in it are written in
process colors too. The export now warns in that case, as it does for
the other gradients drawn as images.
VECTORCRAFT_RENDER_THREADS can make default_threads() return more than 64,
the largest value prefs.set accepts for renderThreads. The test now caps
the value at 64, so it passes with the variable set to 100.
A Stop or a document switch sent through the control channel in the
frame a step comes due now takes effect before that step runs. An
action played through the control channel at Pause For starts its first
pause in the next frame, as the panel's Play does.
Step by Step with the only document closed, and Pause For with the playing
document closed while another stays open: when the next step is due the
playback ends with its status and no further step runs.
A Step by Step playback now waits after each step until a UI pass that the window shows has drawn it. A logic-only iteration, a pass in a minimized or covered window and a discarded pass do not count, so a hidden window no longer runs the steps unseen and does not ask for frames while it waits.
Step by Step and Pause For remember the document that was active after each step. When the next step is due and a different document is active (another one was made active, or that one was closed), the playback ends with a status and the rest of the steps do not run. A step that makes another document active itself does not end the playback.
Step by Step holds the frame after Play, so the first step's result is drawn before the
second step runs, also when the panel's Play button runs after the canvas drew.
An action step recorded as command.batch (an action played while recording, including one
playing at Step by Step or Pause For, or a panel operation that runs as one batch) now plays
as its own steps in Play and Batch..., instead of failing with "batches cannot nest".
The Actions panel menu's Playback Options... sets how actions play (ui.action.playbackOptions {speed?, seconds?}). Accelerated, the default, plays every step at once as one undo step, as before. Step by Step plays one step per frame so the canvas draws each step's result, and Pause For waits 1 to 60 seconds between steps; each paced step is its own undo step. Stop Playing/Recording ends a paced playback, and another action does not play while one is paced. The setting is kept with the UI preferences. Batch... plays at full speed.
Batch Trace Folder replaces a script, so it is now a Document Tools
add-on command, addon.document.batchTraceFolder, under Object ›
Plug-ins › Document Tools (as Export All Open Documents is), and no
longer in Object › Image Trace. Behaviour, caps and the refusal of a
folder too big to list in full are unchanged; the tests move with it.
The status messages have @msgplural rows in every catalog, as does the
menu label. When some images trace and some don't, the status is one
counted message ("Traced {n} images; not traced: {failed}") so it
translates as a whole.
list_dir cuts its listing before sorting, so a cut listing could skip any image. The batch now
stops with an error instead of tracing part of the folder.
imageTrace.batchFolder opens each image in a folder, traces it with a
preset (optionally expanded), saves it into a destination folder under
its own name (vectorcraft, svg, pdf, ai or eps; taken names numbered so
nothing is replaced) and closes it again whether it traced or not; the
active document stays active. Object > Image Trace > Batch Trace Folder
asks for both folders. Not on the web.
A Copy of ruler guides alone left the system clipboard as it was, so the
next Paste took whatever another app had copied before instead of the
guides. The guides-only Copy now empties the system clipboard (on the
web, empty text through egui with Copy As SVG on), as any Copy replaces
what the clipboard held, and drops an earlier Copy's formats not written
yet. What another app copies afterwards still pastes.
Copying only ruler guides published an empty SVG and text to the system clipboard, replacing
what other apps put there. The clipboard now offers other apps nothing without art. Tests cover
two pastes adding guides of their own on the current layer (following its visibility) and the
SVG carrying no guides.
With anchors and ruler guides selected, Cut deletes the anchors and the
selected guides in one undo step (edit.clear's guides: true reaches the
anchor-deleting path).
Cut with objects and ruler guides selected now removes both, in one
undo step: edit.clear takes guides: true beside ids to delete the
selected guides with the objects it names.
Edit > Copy and Cut put the selected ruler guides on the clipboard,
with the selected objects or on their own. Pasting puts them on the
layer new art goes to, selected, in the same undo step: with objects
they move as the objects do; alone they keep their places, while Paste
in Place / in Front / in Back put them on the active artboard as they
lay on theirs, and Paste on All Artboards on every artboard.
text.areaOptions given for several area type frames (ids, or a selection of
several) copied the first frame's options onto all of them, so setting one
option (say the vertical alignment) also replaced the others' columns, gutter,
inset and fit. Each frame now takes only the options given over its own, and
fit resolves against each frame's own setting, so fitMinPercent alone changes
only frames that already shrink text to fit. Options that change nothing add
no undo step and keep redo.
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