Paste style wrote the copied fields straight onto the element, although a
pasted look is meant to be the style operation the assistant sends. It now
runs the engine's own restyle (bookElementStyled): a colour or face pasted by
hand takes the element off the theme, so the next theme applied no longer
brings the old colour back; a plain fill replaces the paint of the shape it
lands on instead of staying hidden under it; and a line takes another line's
look without its points, which are its course, not its look.
A background picked by hand in the inspector kept the page's link to the
theme, so the next theme applied set the page back to the theme's colour. The
picker and the background operation now paint through one helper that takes
the link away (withSpreadPaintByHand). Giving one page's background to every
page carries that page's link along, or takes the others' away when it was
painted by hand.
A built-in layout, a book's own layout and laying a page out again from its
entry ignored locks in the Studio: a locked shape was dropped and a locked
photo poured into a slot unlocked, while the assistant's layout operation left
both where they were. All four now lay a page out around its locked elements
through one function (layoutAroundLocks), which the engine's layout operation
uses too.
Fill page and fill spread kept the photo in its group, so the background
picture was selected and dragged with its caption and listed under the group
at the front. It leaves its group as the engine's fill does, and a group left
with one member goes.
- A shape and a page take a paint: one colour with its own alpha, a linear or
radial gradient of two to six stops, or one of twelve patterns (checks,
gingham, stripes, pinstripes, dots, polka dots, zigzag, waves, grid, scales,
sunburst, confetti). fill, gradient and background keep the colour that
stands for the paint, so an older reader still draws something close, and a
plain colour or the old cover fade is stored in the old fields alone.
- Gradients render as SVG in user space with ids per mounted copy, so the two
halves of a spread in page mode never share a defs id; patterns are drawn
out as geometry clipped to the outline and capped at 2000 primitives.
- The new paint picker has none, solid, gradient and pattern tabs, a stop bar
to click, drag and pull stops off, an angle dial, a radial centre pad and
pattern tiles drawn by the page's own generator.
- Every swatch row gains the book's own colours, colours read from the
page's photos, recent colours and, where it applies, an opacity slider.
- With nothing selected the inspector sets the page background, gives it to
every page of its kind, and lays a photo under the whole page.
- The assistant's background operation takes a paint as well as a colour,
style and add set a shape's paint, and describe_book_page reads both.
- BOOK_SCHEMA_REV goes to 2.
Maurice