With a Shaper Group or one of its faces selected, a Shaper click within
3 screen pixels of one of the group's original shapes' outlines enters
Construction mode with that shape selected, also where the outline runs
through a merged face. shaper.select takes a tolerance in points
(default 3, at most 1000); hidden and locked shapes are skipped, and a
Shaper Group above the selected one still takes the click.
Before the Reshape tool had focal points it sent path.reshape without
focal or radius, and the command stretched an open path from the grabbed
point to its ends whatever the selection, and moved the anchors of a
closed path within half the diagonal of its bounding box with a
falloff. Such a step, in a saved action or a script, now moved a closed
path whole. A step without focal (or with focal null) and without
radius now plays by that earlier rule. The Reshape tool always sends
focal, an empty list included, so its drags keep the focal-point rule.
A click with the Reshape tool on an anchor of a selected path makes it
the focal point, and a click on a segment adds an anchor there that
becomes the focal point. Shift-click adds an anchor or a point on a
segment to the focal points, or removes an anchor that is one already.
Each focal point shows a filled anchor square in a larger hollow one.
A drag from a focal point moves all of them; a drag from another point
moves that point alone, and Shift only keeps the drag's angle.
path.reshape takes the other focal points as focal: [[subpath,
anchor]...]. Anchors that are not direct-selected stay in place, and so
do the ends of an open path unless they are focal points. A selected
anchor between two focal points moves by the whole drag, and one
between a focal point and an anchor that stays takes u² (3 - 2u) of
the drag, as before. A closed subpath with every anchor selected moves
whole: a Reshape drag on a fully selected closed path, and path.reshape
without radius on a closed path selected whole or not selected, move
the whole path instead of a local area. With radius, only the grabbed
point's subpath changes, with the falloff as before.
- An anchor added on a segment of a partly selected path is selected,
and the selected anchors and segments after it keep their points.
- A focal pair that names no anchor is refused ("`focal` names [0, 7],
which is not an anchor of the path"), and so is focal with radius.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
A Reshape drag on an open path moved only the anchors within half the
diagonal of the path's bounding box, measured along the path. On a
zigzag, a wave or a spiral that is one or two anchors, so dragging an
end moved the end and left the rest of the path where it was (#2723).
path.reshape now stretches an open path from the grabbed point to both
ends. The end anchors stay in place. Each anchor between an end and the
grabbed point takes u² (3 - 2u) of the drag, where u is its distance
from that end along the control polygon divided by the grabbed point's
distance from that end. A handle takes the share on the tangent line of
that curve at its anchor, so the handles of a smooth anchor stay in
line with it. A handle that is long beside the span takes a share below
0 or above 1.
This changes the default for every caller that leaves radius out on an
open path. A closed path still moves the anchors within half the
diagonal of its bounding box, and a call that gives radius uses that
radius on open and closed paths.
- A negative radius is refused ("`radius` must be 0 or more"). It gave
anchors beyond the radius a share above 1.
- A drag of no length on an anchor no longer records an undo step.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
While the center was dragged out, the rays pointed at the pointer, as a
polygon's first corner does, and Shift put them back in their original
orientation. In the reference app they turn by a step for each update
of the drag as the pointer moves up or down, and Shift stops the turn
where it is.
Each update of the center drag in which the pointer's document y grows
now adds 0.1 radian (about 5.73°) to the rays' turn, one in which it
falls takes 0.1 radian away, and one at the same y leaves the turn as
it is. Shift held keeps the turn, and turning goes on from there once
Shift is let go. Space held moves the flare without turning the rays.
General › Constrain Angle no longer sets the turn under Shift.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
The release that places the rings' end point applied the pointer's last
movement to the end point only, so with Space held the flare changed
shape instead of moving. The release now moves the center by that
movement as well. The progress doc says how Shift and General >
Constrain Angle set the rays' orientation.
The reference app's Flare tool rotates the rays as the center is dragged
out, Shift constrains them to their original orientation, and Space
held moves the shape being drawn. VectorCraft's Flare tool drew the
rays in one fixed orientation and ignored Shift and Space.
shape.flare takes rotation (degrees, clockwise), which turns the rays
about the center and leaves the halo, the center and the rings as they
are. While the center is dragged out, the rays turn with the pointer,
as a polygon's first corner does, and a drag straight up leaves them
unturned. Shift keeps them unturned, or turned by General › Constrain
Angle as a polygon drawn with Shift is. Space held during the center
drag or the drag that places the rings' end point moves the flare at
its current size, and the drag goes on from there when Space is let
go, as with the shape tools.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Node editing as the public manual describes it: Direct Selection's anchor squares (hollow
or filled), Reshape Segment over a curved segment, Group Selection's plus (also Direct
Selection with Alt), the arrow hollow while a drag snaps, and Alt-copy arrowheads. The
Anchor Point caret, the Curvature pen and Free Transform's side-shear arrows (ShearH,
ShearV) are drawn in code. Lasso, the freehand, symbolism and other tools return cursors
of their own that borrow their old look until drawn (Cursor::stand_in).
crates/tools/src/cursors.toml lists every Cursor value, when it shows and its hotspot,
for whoever draws them; `cargo xtask cursors` (in ci) warns about a missing, unknown,
repeated or incomplete entry and never fails. The busy cursor is listed as missing (G1).
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A Shaper Group had no arrow widget for switching between Face Selection
and Construction mode.
With the Shaper or Selection tool active, a selected Shaper Group, or a
group with one of its faces selected, now shows an arrow beside the
middle of the right side of its source shapes' bounds. A click on it
isolates the source shapes (object.isolate). A second click leaves
isolation with the group selected (object.exitIsolation). The arrow
points right in Face Selection mode and left in Construction mode.
In Construction mode a Shaper click selects an original shape of the
isolated group. Before, it selected the whole group outside the
isolation, and shaper.select with source could pick an original of
another Shaper Group lying above it.
Docs: docs/shaper.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
Double-clicking a tool's button (or tool.options {tool}) now also opens:
- Artboard tool: Artboard Options of the active artboard (the Artboard
tool's while it is in use, else the window's);
- the graph tools: Graph Type for the selected graph (an error without
one), the dialog Object > Graph > Type opens;
- the Symbolism tools: Symbolism Tools Options with the brush the eight
tools share (Diameter, Intensity, Symbol Set Density);
- Magic Wand: the Magic Wand panel.
The Object > Graph dialogs' opener is shared with the toolbar. The new
labels are translated in the eight complete catalogs.
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The Flare tool keeps its options (Center: Diameter, Opacity, Brightness;
Halo: Growth, Fuzziness; Rays: on/off, Number, Longest, Fuzziness; Rings:
on/off, Path, Number, Largest, Direction) as persistent tool options,
saved with the preferences. The next flare dragged out uses them (the drag
still sets the centre and diameter, and Up/Down the ray count), a click
with the tool opens them filled in, and double-clicking the tool (or
tool.options {tool: "flare"}) opens them to edit: OK keeps them and draws
nothing. Before, the click dialog was the generic parameter form with
fixed defaults and the drag always used the command's defaults.
The new Flare Tool Options dialog lays the four groups out in two
columns; Rays and Rings have their checkboxes, and every value is kept
within its range. Its labels are translated in the eight complete
catalogs.
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