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.
The rail lists its sections in the order a book is made: Pages, Content,
Layouts, Elements and Travel, then Theme and Layers set apart below a rule.
Stickers are a tab of Elements beside the icons instead of a rail section of
their own, and Elements has six tabs (text, shapes, lines, frames with the
grids, icons, stickers). The quotation mark moved to the text styles, the
outline rectangle to the basic shapes and the plain rule to the lines. The rail
and every tab row are tab lists the arrow keys walk through, and a long name
wraps instead of being cut. The icon and sticker searches say in the field how
many match, which the sticker library's own head used to.
Every panel on both sides opens on the same head, and every labelled control
uses one row that moves the control under its label when the two do not fit,
so no label sits in a fixed column any more. Number fields, chips, sliders,
tab labels, theme names and travel cards wrap the same way, a country beside
a stop wraps under itself, and an upload cell holds its words to two lines
with the whole label in its tooltip. The heads, shelves and groups are real
headings, so a screen reader can walk the panels by them.
The inspector shows every kind in one order: what the element is and says,
its position and size, its look, its effects, then Arrange. Align and the
stacking buttons are one Arrange group with a button that opens the page in
Layers; its rows sit under their labels, each in two sets that move to a
second line whole. Rarely used groups start folded and open on an element
that already uses them (a turned element, a map held at a zoom, a summary set
in another face), and every group mounts afresh for the next selection. A
sticker's duplicate angle and opacity are gone in favour of the shared
position group, which now has the turn buttons for every kind. With several
elements selected it keeps their angle, opacity and turn, and the mirror when
all of them are stickers, and leaves the frame's numbers to one element. A
photo's fill page and fill spread sit under its crop. With nothing selected
the inspector shows the page background, the book's theme with the way to the
Theme panel, and the page numbers.
Seventeen translation keys nothing has used since before the rebuild (the old
inspector title, the empty spread note, the summary and country list names,
the roads buttons and others) are gone from every language. The broad key
template the old panels used had counted them as reached; the format names,
the empty photo grid messages and the map source hints are now named where the
key check can read them.
Also fixed on the way: the travel stops list shared its class with the
gradient stops and was laid out as sixteen pixel handles; the alignment
buttons were named in raw English; the map's print resolution note joined its
two halves with a dash.
Maurice