diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md index e393b77e..3638f6fa 100644 --- a/ROADMAP.md +++ b/ROADMAP.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ VectorCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Adob This file tracks **how far we are and what's left**. Time estimates are wall-clock hours of continuous Claude Opus 5.5 agent work (including builds and the CI gate), given both for **one agent** and for **4–6 parallel agents** on disjoint crates. They are counted from the remaining work (see [Parity estimate](#parity-estimate)), calibrated against measured throughput, and updated as work lands. -_Last updated: 2026-10-10 (after placed documents (File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file, linked), M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into floating panels that move, stack and dock again (#495), the 0.5.0 startup crash on dual-GPU Linux desktops under Wayland fixed: the desktop's own GPU by default and a restart on the next GPU when one can't show the window (#502), path editing while drawing: Cmd/Ctrl with the Pen borrowing Direct Selection and drawing on afterwards, Pen+Alt reshaping segments, handles of a whole selected path dragging, and handle drags no longer re-gathering snap targets every move (#494), the Control bar's and Properties panel's Convert buttons for a path selected as a whole with Direct Selection, the Pen and the anchor tools (#504), the Pen closing a path dragged out of its first anchor every time, without flicker (#501), the Paste menu checking the system clipboard on a background thread on Linux so an X11 clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window (#510), PDF/`.ai` import keeping a type object's outline stroke on the type, wrapped lines as area type, barcode digits in place and layers in the file's stacking order (#508), the Italian interface (#514), EPS images with several data sources read in turn (#498), `restore` undoing dictionary changes in EPS import (part of #505), the macOS menu bar laid out as a Mac app's (the VectorCraft menu with Settings, Language and Appearance, the system's Hide, Services and Window items; owner's request), Object › Image Trace › Make tracing with the Default preset instead of asking for a preset's name (#543), the rulers' unit menu (#528), Live Corners on stars, polygons and pen paths (#511), the drawing tools snapping to Smart Guides as the Selection tool does, with Construction Guides (#506), the in-window menus' Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste acting on the text field they were opened from (#516), Windows rendering through DX12 before Vulkan (#545), Image Trace tracing colour layers in parallel and refusing traces too large for memory, with the canvas outlining huge selections by their bounds (#525), SVGs of chosen artboards holding only the art over each artboard (#550), the font menu scrolling only its list, under a search field and filters that stay put (#555), a click on an object of a selection making it the key object that Align aligns to and Distribute Spacing spaces from, drawn with a thicker outline (#541), Shape Builder merges taken from the planar map itself, so merged regions leave no inner edge, hairline gap or spur in their outline (#569), `.ai` written by the exports and the CLI (`--export`, `convert`) as Save As writes it (#526), SVG round trips keeping hidden objects and `data-*` attributes (#522), the gradient stop popover staying open after the click that opens it from the Gradient panel (#577), standard ligatures kept under small tracking and dropped only past about −8% / +22% of a word space or when the character asks for them (#583), the Color panel keeping its height as warnings come and go so a drag on its spectrum no longer flickers near white (#578), fonts that font services such as Adobe Fonts load on Windows, listed through DirectWrite (#579), `.ai` files writing their layers and sublayers as PDF layers, hidden ones with their art, and PDF layers nested in layers importing as sublayers (#372), file dialogs on Linux shown off the UI thread so the compositor no longer finds the window not responding, and parented to the window on Linux and Windows (#592), anchors and handle ends picked from 2 px past their drawn size before the segments through them (#593), an image copied in a browser pasting as the picture, not its address (#597), the Free Transform widget with Constrain, Free Transform, Perspective Distort and Free Distort (#598), touch gestures: a two-finger tap undoes and a three-finger tap redoes (#585), the font menus' live preview staying on the text instead of flickering on and off every frame (#563), Edit Artboards showing the active artboard in the Properties panel with New Artboard, Delete Artboard and Exit (#530), the same DirectWrite fonts in `vectorcraft-cli` and its MCP server (#579), SVG layers keeping their names when wrapped and sublayers round-tripping through SVG (#372), a Layers panel that lays out only the rows in view and keeps a document's open rows in its file (#638), a panel dropped on the dock lights up the icon column it goes back to and pops out of its icon (#649), Image Trace's View modes and an Advanced section that stays as it was left (part of #641), Image Trace's Palette: Limited, Full Tone, Automatic and Document Library (part of #641), Image Trace's Create Strokes: line art traced as stroked centre lines (part of #641), a dual-GPU Mac falling back to its other GPU when one fails to start (#651), two fingers dragged on a touch screen panning the canvas (part of #449), the Home screen's Recent Files and a double-clicked New Document preset creating the document (part of #663), quitting no longer crashing on Macs with a Touch Bar (#661), Animated Zoom, Large Tabs, Scale Cursor Proportional to UI and anti-aliased bitmaps in Pixel Preview acting (part of #394), Smart Guides › Spacing Guides (part of #394), Edit Artboards' Properties choosing an artboard's size preset and flipping it between portrait and landscape (#671), Preferences › Type › Additional Fonts Folder loading the fonts of a folder you choose (#683), Canvas Color's light, medium and dark grey (part of #663), a document tab's close box after its title on Windows and Linux, before it on macOS (part of #673), Rearrange All Artboards' layouts (a grid by row or by column, one row, one column) and right-to-left order, one click away in the Properties and Artboards panels (#681), User Interface › Show Tool Group Labels and Cmd+, opening Settings on the Mac (part of #663), the Windows taskbar and Alt+Tab showing VectorCraft's icon, a click with a selection tool making its artboard the active one, and Paste in Place, in Front and in Back pasting onto the active artboard (#693), Photoshop-style raster effects on a pixel-filter pipeline: Effect › Blur › Radial Blur and Smart Blur, Effect › Sharpen › Unsharp Mask (part of gap 2), the Properties panel's number fields all one width (#696), the rotate cursor drawn as a curved double arrow (#701), the Templates folder in the desktop's own documents folder, made when missing (#703), PDF and .ai glyphs whose ToUnicode names no character (U+FFFD) taking their character from the embedded font or keeping their outlines, with a warning (#708), Illustrator EPS and `.ai` files opening from their editing data with their colours, gradients, transparency, images, names and every artboard (part of #637), `.ai` files saved without PDF compatibility opening from their editing data (part of #637), guides left out of raster exports and Fit to Artwork Bounds, hidden art left out of Fit to Artwork Bounds, Illustrator files compared with their page object by object, and `editingData: false` opening only what the page prints (#735), art reaching past a PDF's page clipped to its crop box (#675), Package collecting what placed documents link to (#777), area type, threaded type and type on a path made whole from Illustrator files' text documents (part of #637), the missing-fonts dialog with Find Fonts and a folder search (#792), Effect › Stylize › Glowing Edges (#765), Offset Path's Joins and Zig Zag's Points as dropdowns and Relative/Absolute as radio buttons in the effect dialogs (#828), the control channel's `app.quit` reporting a pending save prompt (#830), blurred type that stays put while the view moves (#755), Windows starting on Direct3D 12 and loading no Vulkan driver unless asked (#806), the Artboard tool naming its artboard once (#824), Save for Web taking typed pixel sizes (#839), rulers ticked over their whole length in a rotated view (#826), the gradient stop popover opening beside the art (#862) and recent colours recolouring the selected stop (#835), every align button following Align To (#789), the Properties panel's Paragraph section with all seven alignments and Hyphenate (#775), isolation mode dimming and locking the art around the isolated group (#833), color books (`.acb`) opening as swatch libraries (#831), files that can't be opened reported in a dialog (#861), `run` and `command_batch` steps using earlier steps' results (#785), ruler guides pulling drawn points with Smart Guides on and Smart Guides labelling centres and anchors on hover (#812), shadows and glows keeping their blend modes in PDF (#827) and `.ai` import skipping layer checks that can't succeed (#758), the Curvature tool editing any selected path (#798), raster exports composited in floating point so translucent edges over opaque art stay opaque (#787), Calligraphic and Bristle Brush Options with pen-pressure Calligraphic brushes (part of #852), a polygon's Polygon Properties in the Properties and Transform panels, Flare Tool Options that last and more tools opening their options on a double-click (part of #812), MCP file access confined with --automation-read-root / --automation-write-root (#832), the Transform effect's dialog with the reference point, Random, sliders and an angle dial (part of #885), artboard X/Y edits in the Properties and Transform panels and Artboard Options taking their art along with Move Artwork with Artboard (#922), Effect › Pixelate's Color Halftone, Crystallize, Mezzotint and Pointillize (part of gap 2); see [Honest assessment](#honest-assessment-2026-10-05))._ +_Last updated: 2026-10-10 (after placed documents (File › Place of a `.vectorcraft` file, linked), M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into floating panels that move, stack and dock again (#495), the 0.5.0 startup crash on dual-GPU Linux desktops under Wayland fixed: the desktop's own GPU by default and a restart on the next GPU when one can't show the window (#502), path editing while drawing: Cmd/Ctrl with the Pen borrowing Direct Selection and drawing on afterwards, Pen+Alt reshaping segments, handles of a whole selected path dragging, and handle drags no longer re-gathering snap targets every move (#494), the Control bar's and Properties panel's Convert buttons for a path selected as a whole with Direct Selection, the Pen and the anchor tools (#504), the Pen closing a path dragged out of its first anchor every time, without flicker (#501), the Paste menu checking the system clipboard on a background thread on Linux so an X11 clipboard owner that never answers no longer freezes the window (#510), PDF/`.ai` import keeping a type object's outline stroke on the type, wrapped lines as area type, barcode digits in place and layers in the file's stacking order (#508), the Italian interface (#514), EPS images with several data sources read in turn (#498), `restore` undoing dictionary changes in EPS import (part of #505), the macOS menu bar laid out as a Mac app's (the VectorCraft menu with Settings, Language and Appearance, the system's Hide, Services and Window items; owner's request), Object › Image Trace › Make tracing with the Default preset instead of asking for a preset's name (#543), the rulers' unit menu (#528), Live Corners on stars, polygons and pen paths (#511), the drawing tools snapping to Smart Guides as the Selection tool does, with Construction Guides (#506), the in-window menus' Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste acting on the text field they were opened from (#516), Windows rendering through DX12 before Vulkan (#545), Image Trace tracing colour layers in parallel and refusing traces too large for memory, with the canvas outlining huge selections by their bounds (#525), SVGs of chosen artboards holding only the art over each artboard (#550), the font menu scrolling only its list, under a search field and filters that stay put (#555), a click on an object of a selection making it the key object that Align aligns to and Distribute Spacing spaces from, drawn with a thicker outline (#541), Shape Builder merges taken from the planar map itself, so merged regions leave no inner edge, hairline gap or spur in their outline (#569), `.ai` written by the exports and the CLI (`--export`, `convert`) as Save As writes it (#526), SVG round trips keeping hidden objects and `data-*` attributes (#522), the gradient stop popover staying open after the click that opens it from the Gradient panel (#577), standard ligatures kept under small tracking and dropped only past about −8% / +22% of a word space or when the character asks for them (#583), the Color panel keeping its height as warnings come and go so a drag on its spectrum no longer flickers near white (#578), fonts that font services such as Adobe Fonts load on Windows, listed through DirectWrite (#579), `.ai` files writing their layers and sublayers as PDF layers, hidden ones with their art, and PDF layers nested in layers importing as sublayers (#372), file dialogs on Linux shown off the UI thread so the compositor no longer finds the window not responding, and parented to the window on Linux and Windows (#592), anchors and handle ends picked from 2 px past their drawn size before the segments through them (#593), an image copied in a browser pasting as the picture, not its address (#597), the Free Transform widget with Constrain, Free Transform, Perspective Distort and Free Distort (#598), touch gestures: a two-finger tap undoes and a three-finger tap redoes (#585), the font menus' live preview staying on the text instead of flickering on and off every frame (#563), Edit Artboards showing the active artboard in the Properties panel with New Artboard, Delete Artboard and Exit (#530), the same DirectWrite fonts in `vectorcraft-cli` and its MCP server (#579), SVG layers keeping their names when wrapped and sublayers round-tripping through SVG (#372), a Layers panel that lays out only the rows in view and keeps a document's open rows in its file (#638), a panel dropped on the dock lights up the icon column it goes back to and pops out of its icon (#649), Image Trace's View modes and an Advanced section that stays as it was left (part of #641), Image Trace's Palette: Limited, Full Tone, Automatic and Document Library (part of #641), Image Trace's Create Strokes: line art traced as stroked centre lines (part of #641), a dual-GPU Mac falling back to its other GPU when one fails to start (#651), two fingers dragged on a touch screen panning the canvas (part of #449), the Home screen's Recent Files and a double-clicked New Document preset creating the document (part of #663), quitting no longer crashing on Macs with a Touch Bar (#661), Animated Zoom, Large Tabs, Scale Cursor Proportional to UI and anti-aliased bitmaps in Pixel Preview acting (part of #394), Smart Guides › Spacing Guides (part of #394), Edit Artboards' Properties choosing an artboard's size preset and flipping it between portrait and landscape (#671), Preferences › Type › Additional Fonts Folder loading the fonts of a folder you choose (#683), Canvas Color's light, medium and dark grey (part of #663), a document tab's close box after its title on Windows and Linux, before it on macOS (part of #673), Rearrange All Artboards' layouts (a grid by row or by column, one row, one column) and right-to-left order, one click away in the Properties and Artboards panels (#681), User Interface › Show Tool Group Labels and Cmd+, opening Settings on the Mac (part of #663), the Windows taskbar and Alt+Tab showing VectorCraft's icon, a click with a selection tool making its artboard the active one, and Paste in Place, in Front and in Back pasting onto the active artboard (#693), Photoshop-style raster effects on a pixel-filter pipeline: Effect › Blur › Radial Blur and Smart Blur, Effect › Sharpen › Unsharp Mask (part of gap 2), the Properties panel's number fields all one width (#696), the rotate cursor drawn as a curved double arrow (#701), the Templates folder in the desktop's own documents folder, made when missing (#703), PDF and .ai glyphs whose ToUnicode names no character (U+FFFD) taking their character from the embedded font or keeping their outlines, with a warning (#708), Illustrator EPS and `.ai` files opening from their editing data with their colours, gradients, transparency, images, names and every artboard (part of #637), `.ai` files saved without PDF compatibility opening from their editing data (part of #637), guides left out of raster exports and Fit to Artwork Bounds, hidden art left out of Fit to Artwork Bounds, Illustrator files compared with their page object by object, and `editingData: false` opening only what the page prints (#735), art reaching past a PDF's page clipped to its crop box (#675), Package collecting what placed documents link to (#777), area type, threaded type and type on a path made whole from Illustrator files' text documents (part of #637), the missing-fonts dialog with Find Fonts and a folder search (#792), Effect › Stylize › Glowing Edges (#765), Offset Path's Joins and Zig Zag's Points as dropdowns and Relative/Absolute as radio buttons in the effect dialogs (#828), the control channel's `app.quit` reporting a pending save prompt (#830), blurred type that stays put while the view moves (#755), Windows starting on Direct3D 12 and loading no Vulkan driver unless asked (#806), the Artboard tool naming its artboard once (#824), Save for Web taking typed pixel sizes (#839), rulers ticked over their whole length in a rotated view (#826), the gradient stop popover opening beside the art (#862) and recent colours recolouring the selected stop (#835), every align button following Align To (#789), the Properties panel's Paragraph section with all seven alignments and Hyphenate (#775), isolation mode dimming and locking the art around the isolated group (#833), color books (`.acb`) opening as swatch libraries (#831), files that can't be opened reported in a dialog (#861), `run` and `command_batch` steps using earlier steps' results (#785), ruler guides pulling drawn points with Smart Guides on and Smart Guides labelling centres and anchors on hover (#812), shadows and glows keeping their blend modes in PDF (#827) and `.ai` import skipping layer checks that can't succeed (#758), the Curvature tool editing any selected path (#798), raster exports composited in floating point so translucent edges over opaque art stay opaque (#787), Calligraphic and Bristle Brush Options with pen-pressure Calligraphic brushes (part of #852), a polygon's Polygon Properties in the Properties and Transform panels, Flare Tool Options that last and more tools opening their options on a double-click (part of #812), MCP file access confined with --automation-read-root / --automation-write-root (#832), the Transform effect's dialog with the reference point, Random, sliders and an angle dial (part of #885), artboard X/Y edits in the Properties and Transform panels and Artboard Options taking their art along with Move Artwork with Artboard (#922), Effect › Pixelate's Color Halftone, Crystallize, Mezzotint and Pointillize (part of gap 2), linked files changed while the app was in the background following Update Links when its window comes back to the front (#925); see [Honest assessment](#honest-assessment-2026-10-05))._ ## Where we are diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/missing_links.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/missing_links.rs index 467de82e..e2bd4b45 100644 --- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/missing_links.rs +++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/missing_links.rs @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ //! (`links.relink`), and with Apply to All the other missing files are looked for by name in its //! folder; Ignore keeps the images showing their saved preview, and with Apply to All ignores the //! rest. Afterwards, with Preferences › Update Links: Ask When Modified, the modified links are -//! offered for update (`links.update`). +//! offered for update (`links.update`). Files changed while the app was in the background are +//! checked when its window comes back to the front ([`after_focus`]). //! //! Fields: `missing` (`[{name, path, ids}]`, the one asked about first), `modified` (the ids of //! images whose file was modified), `applyToAll`, `path` (the replacement file; picked when empty) @@ -74,6 +75,39 @@ fn ask_update(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ids: Vec) { super::confirm::ask(app, tl!("Update Modified Links"), &detail, "links.update", json!({ "ids": ids })); } +/// A linked file as last seen: its path, and its size and modification time when it exists. +pub(crate) type FileStamp = (String, Option<(u64, Option)>); + +/// The window came back to the front (#925): linked files of the active document changed +/// meanwhile are read again with Update Links: Automatically, offered for update with Ask When +/// Modified (once per change of a file), and left to the Links panel with Manually. Nothing is +/// asked while a dialog is open. +pub fn after_focus(app: &mut VectorcraftApp) { + if cfg!(target_arch = "wasm32") || app.session.prefs.update_links == "manually" || app.ui.dialog.is_some() || app.session.active().is_none() { + return; + } + let Ok(r) = app.session.execute("links.check", &json!({})) else { return }; + let rows: Vec = r["links"].as_array().into_iter().flatten().filter(|l| l["status"] == "modified").cloned().collect(); + if rows.is_empty() { + return; + } + if app.session.prefs.update_links == "automatically" { + // A failure shows in the status bar, as the Links panel's Update Link does. + let _ = app.run("links.update", json!({ "ids": ids(&rows) })); + return; + } + // The file each link reads (one found elsewhere after a move), its size and when it was last + // changed (two changes can share a time on file systems that keep it coarsely). + let stamp = |l: &Value| -> FileStamp { + let path = l["found"].as_str().or(l["path"].as_str()).unwrap_or_default().to_string(); + let meta = std::fs::metadata(&path).ok(); + let at = meta.as_ref().map(|m| (m.len(), m.modified().ok())); + (path, at) + }; + let new: Vec = rows.into_iter().filter(|l| app.links_asked.insert(stamp(l))).collect(); + ask_update(app, ids(&new)); +} + fn body(_: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui, d: &mut Dialog) -> bool { let t = Tokens::get(ui.ctx()); let missing = d.fields.get("missing").and_then(Value::as_array).map_or(&[][..], Vec::as_slice); @@ -262,4 +296,58 @@ mod tests { assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none()); let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir); } + + /// #925: a linked file changed while the app was in the background follows Update Links when + /// the window comes back to the front. + #[test] + fn a_link_changed_in_the_background_follows_update_links_on_focus() { + let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("vectorcraft-focus-links-{}", std::process::id())); + std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap(); + let mut app = VectorcraftApp::new(Session::new(), Default::default()); + app.services.read = Some(Box::new(|p: &str| std::fs::read(p).map_err(|e| e.to_string()))); + app.run("file.new", json!({"width": 400, "height": 300})).unwrap(); + let pic = dir.join("a.png"); + // Each version a different size, so no two share a length and modification time. + let mut version = 0; + let mut change = || { + version += 1; + let mut out = vec![]; + image::RgbaImage::from_pixel(100 + version, 50, image::Rgba([40 * version as u8, 0, 0, 255])) + .write_to(&mut std::io::Cursor::new(&mut out), image::ImageFormat::Png) + .unwrap(); + std::fs::write(&pic, out).unwrap(); + }; + change(); + app.run("file.place", json!({"path": pic.to_string_lossy()})).unwrap(); + let modified = |app: &mut VectorcraftApp| app.run("links.check", json!({})).unwrap()["modified"].as_u64().unwrap(); + // The window coming to the front asks for the check. + let mut raw = egui::RawInput { events: vec![egui::Event::WindowFocused(true)], ..Default::default() }; + app.raw_input_hook(&mut raw); + assert!(app.links_check); + // Ask When Modified (the default): asked once per change. + change(); + after_focus(&mut app); + let d = app.ui.dialog.take().expect("asks"); + assert_eq!(d.str("__command"), "links.update"); + after_focus(&mut app); + assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none(), "not twice for the same change"); + change(); + after_focus(&mut app); + assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_some(), "a new change asks again"); + super::super::confirm(&mut app).unwrap(); + assert_eq!(modified(&mut app), 0); + // Automatically: read again without asking. + app.run("prefs.set", json!({"key": "updateLinks", "value": "automatically"})).unwrap(); + change(); + after_focus(&mut app); + assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none()); + assert_eq!(modified(&mut app), 0); + // Manually: left to the Links panel. + app.run("prefs.set", json!({"key": "updateLinks", "value": "manually"})).unwrap(); + change(); + after_focus(&mut app); + assert!(app.ui.dialog.is_none()); + assert_eq!(modified(&mut app), 1); + let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir); + } } diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs index 5676f82f..02546253 100644 --- a/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs +++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs @@ -371,6 +371,12 @@ pub struct VectorcraftApp { /// The look for fonts installed or removed while the app was in the background, running /// ([`Self::refresh_installed_fonts`]): whether they were. font_check: Option>, + /// The window came back to the front: check the active document's linked files next frame + /// ([`dialogs::missing_links::after_focus`]). + pub(crate) links_check: bool, + /// The changed linked files already offered for update (path, size and modification time), so + /// coming back to the window doesn't ask about the same change twice. + pub(crate) links_asked: std::collections::HashSet, /// Keyboard pastes of something other than text (see [`shortcuts::PasteChord`]). pub(crate) paste_chord: shortcuts::PasteChord, /// Saves and exports running in the background (Preferences → File Handling). @@ -468,6 +474,8 @@ impl VectorcraftApp { clipboard_probe: None, picks: picks::Picks::default(), font_check: None, + links_check: false, + links_asked: Default::default(), paste_chord: Default::default(), background: Default::default(), recovery: Default::default(), @@ -881,6 +889,9 @@ impl VectorcraftApp { self.system_paste = wanted && self.system_clipboard_pasteable(); } self.poll_font_check(ctx); + if std::mem::take(&mut self.links_check) { + dialogs::missing_links::after_focus(self); + } picks::poll(self, ctx); background::poll(self); if !self.background.jobs.is_empty() { @@ -1014,7 +1025,10 @@ impl VectorcraftApp { match e { egui::Event::ModifiersChanged(m) => self.host_modifiers = *m, egui::Event::WindowFocused(false) => self.host_modifiers = egui::Modifiers::NONE, - egui::Event::WindowFocused(true) => self.refresh_installed_fonts(), + egui::Event::WindowFocused(true) => { + self.refresh_installed_fonts(); + self.links_check = true; + } _ => {} } } diff --git a/docs/control-protocol.md b/docs/control-protocol.md index be8ae714..6492976b 100644 --- a/docs/control-protocol.md +++ b/docs/control-protocol.md @@ -404,7 +404,9 @@ Missing linked files: `app.open` of a document whose linked images' files can't folder; `ui.dialog.set {field: "discard", value: true}` then confirm ignores it (the images keep their preview), with `applyToAll` the rest too. The next missing file is asked about after each answer; `ui.dialog.cancel` stops asking. Then, with the preference `updateLinks: "askWhenModified"`, modified linked files are offered for update in a -`confirm` dialog whose `ui.dialog.confirm` runs `links.update`. +`confirm` dialog whose `ui.dialog.confirm` runs `links.update`. The same happens when the app's window comes back to +the front and a linked file of the active document changed meanwhile (asked once per change of a file); with +`"automatically"` the files are read again at once, with `"manually"` the Links panel shows them as modified. Missing fonts: once the missing linked file questions are answered, or at once when there are none, `app.open` of a document whose type uses fonts that aren't available (`text.missingFonts`) opens the `missingFonts` dialog, one document diff --git a/docs/mcp.md b/docs/mcp.md index 7bcf2df7..67144d35 100644 --- a/docs/mcp.md +++ b/docs/mcp.md @@ -1809,7 +1809,8 @@ the preview instead of the pixels, plus the path relative to the saved file. `do the linked files again, looking for each at its path, then at its relative path and by name in the document's folder (so a folder moved with its links still opens): the result lists `missingLinks` (their images show the preview), `modifiedLinks` (left as they were; read again only with the preference `updateLinks: "automatically"`, then they are -in `updatedLinks`), each as `{name, path, ids}`. `links.check` reports every link's `status` (`ok`, `modified`, +in `updatedLinks`), each as `{name, path, ids}`. The desktop app also checks the active document's links when its window +comes back to the front, following the same preference. `links.check` reports every link's `status` (`ok`, `modified`, `missing`), `links.update {ids?}` reads modified files again and `links.relink {ids?, path | folder}` points images at another file (or each at the file of its name in a folder); images keep their bounds, one undo step each. Without a file system (the web), linked images show their previews.