The new General preference Show Bounding Box While Moving and Drawing
(`boundingBoxWhileMovingAndDrawing`, off by default) keeps the bounding
box and its handles visible during two kinds of drag, with View › Show
Bounding Box on. While a drag moves the selection (a Selection tool
move, an Alt-drag copy, or a shape tool's move by the center point),
the box is drawn where the drag has moved the selection. The box is
measured once when the drag starts and offset by each step's move.
While the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Star tools
draw a shape, the box is drawn around the shape. A rotation and a
widget drag still hide the box until the release. The Line Segment
tool, the Pen, the Pencil and the Paintbrush draw no box.
With the preference off, the box hides during a move (#737, for #712)
and while a shape is drawn (#5839), as before. A Selection tool move
with Real-time Drawing off still moves the box with the pointer, and a
shape tool's move by the center point hides it in both modes.
With Real-time Drawing off, the box of a shape being drawn is measured
from the pending preview, in the color of the layer the shape goes on.
A shape being drawn shows no box until a preview step has succeeded,
so a failed preview does not show the box of the selection from before
the drag. The preference's label has a row in every catalog.
Session::deferred_move() is replaced by Session::move_drag_box(), which
returns the moved box, and Session::deferred_transform_box() now also
returns the layer color of the box.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A selected image offers Remove Background in the Contextual Task Bar, Properties'
Quick Actions and the Control bar, as the reference app does. A click runs it at
once with its defaults, as one undo step; Object > Plug-ins > Image Tools keeps
the dialog with Preview.
A function an earlier run of a named engine defined was reported without
a line, column or file when it threw in a later run. The realm now gives
each source a tag that stays the same from run to run (Realm::error_tag,
Realm::script_tag), and no two sources share one once the tags run out.
Each named engine keeps the source maps of its runs' scripts, included
files and $.evalFile files, within 8 MiB, dropping the oldest first, and
an error in kept code is reported at that file, line and column. The
report's name and the console line keep the calling run's name. For an
earlier script given as source, file is that run's name.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Script engines), script.run params text,
docs/target-app-parity.md.
The 3D and Materials row of docs/target-app-parity.md names Revolve
(Classic) with its options and surfaces among what ships, and its
evidence names the tests that cover it.
text.tabs.set takes a list of more than 256 stops when every paragraph it
targets already holds at least that many, so a paragraph loaded with more
stops can lose them one at a time (the Tabs panel's Delete Tab). Any
other list of more than 256 stops is still refused, counted as supplied
before stops at one position merge.
Docs: docs/mcp.md.
When a dynamic symbol is redefined or edited, each instance kept every
appearance change whose path still named an object, even when that
object is now one that draws no fill or stroke of its own (an image, a
blend, a mesh) or a symbol instance given a gradient or pattern fill.
symbol.instance.setAppearance refuses such a paint, but the change stayed
on the instance and still counted as a color the document uses.
Fitting the changes to the new art now also clears a fill or stroke the
object at that path does not draw, and drops a change left empty.
Coordinates outside -32,768 to 32,767 plotter units (about 82 cm from the origin) are written as they are, with a warning that older devices may not read them. HP-GL/2 plots are not checked against this range.
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