The Artboards panel menu asks whether Delete Empty Artboards can run on
every frame while it is open, and each ask measured the document. With
an open path of 200,000 anchors across two artboards, that took 70.4 ms
a frame in a release build.
The answer is now kept per open document with the version of the
document it was measured on, and is measured again when the document
changes. A later frame takes under 0.001 ms. The first frame after an
edit measures once. A change of the selection or the view keeps the
answer.
With the Artboard tool, the canvas context menu lists the entries of the
public Use the artboard context menu page in its order, in place of the
entries for objects and the view. Lock Artboards and Unlock Artboards are
two submenus. An entry that cannot run is left out, and Undo and Redo stay
dimmed. A right-click on an artboard that is not selected selects it alone
first, and the menu measures the art for Delete Empty Artboards and Fit to
Artwork Bounds once, at the right-click.
Cut, Copy, Duplicate Artboards, Rename, Delete Artboards, Lock Selected,
Unlock Selected, Fit to Artwork Bounds, Switch Orientation and Export act on
the artboards the tool has selected, else the active one. docs/mcp.md lists
what the other entries act on.
- artboard.rename renames in one undo step and numbers several names. The
menu's Rename opens a dialog that runs it, and the Artboards panel's name
field runs it too.
- artboard.switchOrientation swaps width and height and keeps the top-left
corner, skipping square and locked artboards.
- artboard.selectAll chooses the tool and selects every artboard.
- edit.paste takes artboardsAt, and the menu's Paste centers copied
artboards on the right-click's point.
- The menu's Cut and Copy run artboard.cut and artboard.copy. In the desktop
app those commands publish to the system clipboard, and the menu shows the
Cut and Copy shortcuts for them.
- artboard.fitToArt and the panel's name field record no undo step when
nothing changes.
artboard.duplicate, copy, cut, rename and switchOrientation take their
artboards from the tool's selection when a call names none. Each now records
them in the journal as selectedArtboards, which a replay reads and a recorded
action leaves out. The copy commands also record art. switchOrientation
records scaleArt, and it takes patterns and lockedAndHidden and records what
its artboard.setProps step resolved for them.
While the Artboard tool is in use, a command chosen from any menu or the
command palette moves the tool's selection as the Artboards panel does:
artboard.new makes the new artboard active, artboard.duplicate selects the
copies, and artboard.delete and artboard.deleteEmpty make a remaining
artboard active.
The enabled check of artboard.deleteEmpty built the full list of empty
artboards, measuring the visual bounds of the art against every
artboard, each time the Artboards panel menu was drawn. It now returns
false at once in a document with one artboard (that artboard is never
deleted). With two or more, it asks the new
Document::any_artboard_without_art whether any unlocked artboard has no
art, which is the same answer as a non-empty list.
Document::any_artboard_without_art builds the symbol boxes once for all
the artboards and first tests each path and compound path by a quick
box: its control points' box grown by the farthest its strokes reach
(Appearance::outset), with a margin for rounding. An artboard that no
quick box meets is reported empty without measuring along any path.
Only when every artboard may hold art is each one measured.
Document::artboard_has_art also skips measuring an object whose quick
box misses the artboard; its answers are unchanged.
The check of gradient.presets.save found the proxy paints through
Node::proxy_paint, which measures the object's geometric bounds for a
gradient box the check does not use. Node::proxy_paint_only picks the
same paint without measuring, and the engine's proxy_paint uses it, so
the Fill and Stroke proxies and the mixed-paint test no longer measure
each object either.
With an open stroked path of 200,000 anchors selected, the two checks
take under 0.01 ms instead of 21.9 ms and 17.2 ms in a release build, and
Delete Empty Artboards' check takes 0.85 ms instead of 42.1 ms with a
second, empty artboard.
Tests compare each check with what its command does (one artboard, all
empty, one empty, locked empty, nested art; with and without a
gradient), compare any_empty_artboards with the previous check and with
measuring every object on 120 seeded documents, compare the quick boxes
with the visual bounds on seeded strokes, and compare proxy_paint_only
with proxy_paint on seeded objects.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, one line under Delete Empty Artboards.
artboard.setProps refused an x, y, width or height given as text, but
artboard.new read such a value as the key left out: {"x": "10"} added
an artboard at the default position and recorded an undo step. Both
commands read a name that is not a string, such as 5, as no name, so
artboard.new gave the default name and artboard.setProps kept the old
one.
artboard.new now refuses an x, y, width or height that is not a number
with "`<key>` must be a number, not <value>", the message
artboard.setProps gives, and both commands refuse such a name with
"`name` must be a string", for each entry of artboard.setProps'
artboards too. They refuse it before they change anything. A null is
still read as the key left out.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
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