swatch.edit stored a replacement gradient without its placement, so a
radial gradient with an aspect, Alt-dropped on a gradient swatch or
given as `paint`, lost that aspect, while swatch.new keeps it and
applies the swatch with it. A gradient given an aspect without `start`
and `end` lost the aspect in both commands. A replacement pattern kept
the tile transform of the swatch it came from, while swatch.new stores
a pattern untransformed, and `paint: {pattern: name}`, which an Alt-drop
of a pattern fill sends, was refused.
swatch.edit and swatch.new now store a gradient or pattern through one
helper: a gradient keeps its aspect, with or without a vector, and holds
no swatch link, and a pattern is untransformed. swatch.edit takes a
pattern by name, as swatch.new does.
The Confining file access bullet said the app's own folders are not
confined. It now names the commands that check the roots for a file
there: the arrowheads edit, reload and list commands, the New Document
profile commands and file.new, and the Scripts folder listing and run,
each linked to its section.
graphicStyle.new linked the object it was made from, the art of a column
or marker design in a graph series included, and graphicStyle.redefine
gave the new look to every object still linked to the style. Redefining
the style from another object then restyled that art, which the graph
draws again from the design.
- graphicStyle.new makes a style from the art without linking it.
- graphicStyle.redefine leaves the art's look as it was and unlinks it,
as an edited object is, whether the art is a linked object (as in a
document saved before this change) or the source.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, the params text of graphicStyle.new and
graphicStyle.redefine.
A gradient vector drawn on the art, a click that applies one, and the
dragged start and end handles snapped through snap_draw, which gathers
the bounds and anchors of the art only. Path segments, View › Snap to
Glyph's guides and the construction guides through the vector's start
did not pull them, and a click applied the gradient from the pointer
rather than from the snapped point. They now snap through DrawSnap, as
the Pen and Line Segment tools do:
- The press gathers the targets, for a vector drawn on the art and the
start and end handles only, and the drag keeps them. A click applies
the gradient from the snapped press.
- A dragged end or handle leaves its start as a Line Segment's end does:
it lands on the construction guides through the start, and with Shift
it keeps to 45° steps from the Constrain Angle and snaps along them.
- The pointer hovering where a press would draw a vector (anywhere with
art selected, over art with nothing selected), and not over the
annotator, shows the guides of the point the vector would start on.
A press that snaps onto a nearby target no longer starts the drag
early: the 3 px drag threshold counts from where the pointer was
pressed, not from the snapped start.
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