The interface below the menu bar is localized (618 fixed menu entries, ~490 panel rows) but an
effect's name still rendered in English everywhere it appeared: the generated Effect menu, Effect
Controls, the Timeline and Effects & Presets.
The registry's English name is the effect's identity: `effect.list`, `effect.apply {"effect": …}`,
scripts, expressions and the property tree's group name all match on it. Only the drawing changes.
`crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/effects.rs` keys the names by effect **id** rather than by the English
string — a repeat is stored as `Gaussian Blur 2` (an English key would miss it) and upstream
renames a display name now and then, while the id is stable. It carries 306 rows for Simplified
Chinese, one per effect in the registry, taken from the installed After Effects 2026 (26.5.0.89)
Simplified Chinese interface, with the `CC` series following Adobe's Chinese documentation (which
names 68 of the 69 that its interface leaves in English). `Cryptomatte`, `EXtractoR`, `IDentifier`,
`Key Light` and `Unmult` stay in English as brand names; `Face Measurements` and `Face Track
Points` are EffectCraft's own effects. The 21 category folder names are in the same file, worded
after the effect names (channel → 通道, noise → 杂色, matte → 遮罩 …).
What draws the catalog now:
- **Effect menu:** the entries and the category submenus. The command and its `{"effect": <id>}`
params are untouched, so the menu still applies by id.
- **Effect Controls:** the header, its Rename field, the accessible name and the About popup.
- **Timeline:** effect group rows, and the search (a Chinese interface is searchable in Chinese).
- **Effects & Presets:** the rows, the drag ghost, the folder rows and the search.
Kept as they are: the effect id, the property tree's `PropGroup.name`, every automation id and
label, `effect.list`'s `name`/`category`, and the undo label (`Apply Gaussian Blur`). A name the
user typed in Effect Controls stays verbatim, and a repeated instance keeps the index the engine
appends (`Gaussian Blur 2` → `高斯模糊 2`). No other language has rows yet, Traditional Chinese
included, so those draw the registry's English name.
Tests: nine unit tests under `cargo test -p effectcraft-ui-egui --lib i18n` cover the data (every
effect has a row, the row still carries the registry's English name, ids are unique, only the five
brand names repeat their English name, every category has a row, a row names an effect the registry
knows) and the behaviour (the instance index, user renames, English and untranslated languages,
search) plus a scan pinning the drawing sites. `crates/ui-egui/tests/ui_effect_names.rs` checks the
Effect Controls header, the generated Effect menu and that the ids, automation labels and
`effect.list` stay English.
`docs/localization-parity.md` and `docs/gaps.md` no longer record effect names as deliberately
English; effect *parameter* names are still untranslated and stay the next piece.
Refs #821
Keeping OK and Cancel in view took away the outer scroll area that also
scrolled the dialog sideways, and the controls only scrolled up and
down. In a narrow window (960x600 at 200 % UI Scale leaves the controls
about 190 points next to the 200-point list) they ran past the dialog's
right edge with no way to reach them.
The controls now scroll both ways in the room left under their heading,
with no minimum scrolled size, so a small budget can't hide the end of
them; the list scrolls in its height the same way. Each control also
registers dialog.layerStyle.value.<style>/<path> next to its label's id.
Tests:
- layer_style_controls_stay_reachable_in_a_small_window: in a 960x600
window at 200 %, and opened large then narrowed, Noise is scrolled to,
painted whole and dragged; fails before (it lies past the window).
- layer_style_buttons_stay_in_view now checks both buttons at 100 % and
200 %, each case in a fresh app with a real edit: OK keeps it, Cancel
puts the project and its undo history back as before the dialog.
The Layer Style dialog's OK and Cancel came after the style list and
the style's controls in one scroll area, and at its usual size they
were laid out past the dialog's bottom edge: clipped, and a click on
them did nothing until the dialog was scrolled.
The dialog now uses above_footer: OK and Cancel sit at its bottom right
and the list and the controls scroll above them, also at 200 % UI
Scale.
Test: layer_style_buttons_stay_in_view (both buttons painted whole and
clicked, at 100 % and 200 %; fails before: Cancel isn't painted).
The layer bar Quick Offset was followed and ended in its row's code, and
rows out of view aren't drawn. Released with its row scrolled away, it
stayed active: the next drag of that bar, even a plain one, ran as a
Quick Offset from the old origin, into the old undo step.
Like the key drag, it now follows the pointer below the rows and ends
when the button is released, wherever the bar's row is.
Test: a_quick_offset_released_off_screen_ends (release with the row
scrolled away; a plain drag after it moves both layers together as its
own undo step; fails before).
In After Effects a marquee selection staggers in the comp's layer order,
not in the direction the box was drawn. A Shift-click range of layer
bars and a box of keys already come out top layer first; this test makes
both with the pointer (the range from the bottom layer up, the box from
the bottom right to the top left) and checks the Quick Offset that
follows: the top layer stays and the bottom one moves the whole delta.
Ctrl/Cmd+Alt dragging a selected layer bar or a selected key now runs a
Quick Offset (layer.quickOffset / keys.quickOffset with fromStart, one
undo step). The mode is chosen when the drag starts and needs at least
two unlocked layers; the last selected layer moves by whole frames with
the pointer. A readout by the pointer shows the Total Offset and the
offset Per Layer, translated.
A plain drag still moves the selection together, Alt alone still scales
a key group in time (it now leaves Ctrl/Cmd+Alt to Quick Offset), and
Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+click still toggles Hold. The key drag's readout is drawn
by a shared drag_tip. Keys also register timeline.keyAt.<uid>.<ticks>,
exact where keys on subframes can share a frame.
Tests (ui_quick_offset): staggering layer bars in selection order and
keys per layer, one undo each; plain drags and Alt scaling unchanged; the
readout while dragging.
The layer context menu gains an Effects submenu between Blending Mode and Arrange, mirroring the After Effects layer menu: the effect registry grouped by category (sorted), synced with the Effect menu; picking one applies it to the selected layers.
A colour pick clicked in the Composition panel before the viewer had a frame
(still rendering on a background thread, or a readback pending) sampled nothing
but was used up, leaving the colour unchanged. The click now leaves the
eyedropper armed, as the text colour eyedropper already does.
timeline_colour_eyedropper_samples_the_comp clicked without waiting for the
frame and hit this in about one run in four; it now waits for the frame.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The floating group's title strip used the same id as its Area's own
background widget, and the Area was shifted back into the window while
the group's rect kept moving, so the two no longer overlapped and egui
painted "Double use of widget ID" over the panel. The strip has its own
id and the group is drawn where its rect says.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The attach point's 12 px grab area sat on top of the feature region and is tested first. Zoomed out, a default feature region is smaller than that on screen, so every press inside it moved the attach point instead of the point. Inside the feature region the attach point now grabs only the region's inner half.
Problem: the built-in animation preset library had no Backgrounds category
(gap 7: 31 presets against After Effects' 621).
Fix: 23 original Backgrounds presets in crates/engine/presets/backgrounds.json,
built from our own generator, noise, colour and stylize effects: Soft Gradient
Drift, Aurora Veil, Slow Fog, Cloud Bank, Dark Smoke, Ember Haze, Magma Flow,
Ice Flow, Pastel Plasma, Cell Drift, Crystal Facets, Hex Mosaic, Mirrored Silk,
Water Caustics, Blueprint Grid, Checker Scroll, Scrolling Stripes, Pulse Rings,
Bokeh Drift, Spotlight Floor, Dawn Sky, Sweeping Light, Grainy Wash.
The preset format gains `expr` (an expression per property, so backgrounds keep
moving for the whole layer) and point parameters written as fractions of the
layer size. Effects & Presets lists them under * Animation Presets > Backgrounds.
Tests: catalogue uniqueness and categories, apply/undo/redo of every preset
(engine), render of every preset with the expression engine: finite,
non-flat, deterministic, moving (host), panel listing and apply (ui-egui).
Sidecar, ATTRIBUTION.md, gaps.md row 7 and effects-parity.md updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Undoes the 800 px Project Settings width from #980: the form is back at the
shared 480 px.
A form's choice popup keeps its 240 px column and ends a long choice (a GPU
adapter's name) in an ellipsis instead of widening the grid past the dialog.
Only the fields scroll, and only vertically; OK and Cancel sit under the
scroll area, so they stay in view.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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