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Fixes #787.

Problem

Clicking the frame of a text box or placeholder that was not being edited started text entry, so the box could not be selected from its edge, and so could not be moved, duplicated (modifier key) or deleted with the Delete key. PowerPoint selects the box whole there. (Hit::Frame already did this for a box that is being edited.)

Fix

  • Session::down (crates/engine/src/tools.rs): a press on the frame band (edit_zone == Frame, the same band Hit::Frame uses) of a text-holding shape selects it whole and does not enter text editing. A click inside the box still puts the caret there. Tables, toggling with Shift/Cmd and other shapes are unchanged.
  • Test clicking_the_frame_of_a_text_box_selects_it_whole: edges and corners inside and just outside the box select without entering text; dragging the frame moves the box; a click inside takes the caret; Delete removes the box. It fails without the fix.
  • Docs: docs/ui-parity.md row, status line and revision history, and a ROADMAP.md progress-log line.

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Run locally without the desktop app crate (deckcraft needs ALSA headers, which this machine lacks): cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --workspace --exclude deckcraft --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test -p deckcraft-engine (313 passed), cargo xtask layers, cargo xtask assets. The ui-egui GUI tests that need a GPU adapter, and replacefonts_tests::ribbon_button_opens_the_dialog_and_replaces (fails the same way without this change), could not be judged here, so please rely on CI for them. I did not see the change in the running app.

Related: #764 and #470 (PR #493) touch the same area. #493 already conflicts with main on its own and does not overlap with this change.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Clicking the frame of a text box or placeholder selects the whole object rather than placing the text caret. You can then move, duplicate, or delete the selected object. Clicking inside the text area continues to place the caret for editing, keeping object selection and text editing distinct.

anishguduru pushed a commit to anishguduru/deckcraft that referenced this pull request Oct 16, 2026
…old#1064)

The parity and roadmap docs were last refreshed before a batch of fixes
merged, so they still described closed issues as open problems.

- storytold#774 (encrypted output rejected by Acrobat, fixed by storytold#836): gap 1
  removed from gaps.md; its remaining interop-suite work moved to gap 12.
  Gap numbers are kept so existing "gap N" references stay valid.
- storytold#756 (Windows printing, storytold#847): Printers row, Print area and roadmap
  rank 1 now name web printing as the remaining gap.
- storytold#740 column select (storytold#765), storytold#759 1:1 touchpad scrolling (storytold#868),
  storytold#810 Shift-Cmd-G (storytold#835), storytold#825 (storytold#822).
- storytold#844 multi-object move (storytold#907): marked partial, same page only.
- storytold#799, storytold#800, storytold#807, storytold#809, storytold#811, storytold#815-storytold#819, storytold#821 (incl. the storytold#816 panic):
  gap 6 and the area tables list them as fixed.

Scores, readiness percentages and the stage are not re-judged; only the
rank-0 estimate drops by gap 1's 8-15 h (40-70 -> 32-55).

Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
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Frame-band clicks on text boxes and placeholders select the whole object instead of entering text editing. Interior clicks retain text-entry behavior. Tests cover frame selection, dragging, deletion, and plain-shape click behavior. The roadmap and UI parity checklist record the change.

Changes: Text-box frame selection

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Frame-click selection behavior
crates/engine/src/tools.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, docs/ui-parity.md, ROADMAP.md
Frame-band clicks no longer enter text editing. Tests cover selecting, moving, and deleting a text box, interior text editing, and plain-shape behavior. The documentation records frame selection.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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Frame clicks select text boxes and placeholders while ordinary-shape editing remains unchanged. No known issue blocks merging.

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[#787] Requirement: a click on the frame of a new or placed text box selects the box, so it can be moved, duplicated with a modifier key, or deleted with the Delete key. The diff in crates/engine/src/tools.rs (Session::down) adds an on_frame check. It is true when the shape has text, is_text_first holds, and edit_zone(...) == EditZone::Frame. When on_frame is true, enter_text is None, so the press selects the shape without starting text entry. The inside of the box keeps the caret. Tables, Shift/Cmd toggling, and plain shapes keep the previous conditions. The new test clicking_the_frame_of_a_text_box_selects_it_whole covers frame edges and corners inside and outside the box, drag-to-move, caret placement from an inside click, and Delete via edit.delete. The test clicking_the_frame_of_a_selected_plain_shape_still_takes_the_caret checks the plain-shape boundary. Limits: I did not run the tests. I did not read the is_text_first definition, so the text-box and placeholder scope is inferred from the existing code and the test names. The modifier-key duplicate is not tested directly; it uses the existing move path once the shape is selected. The new-box creation path is not separately exercised by the test.

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All changed paths relate to #787. crates/engine/src/tools.rs holds the frame-click change and its comments. crates/engine/src/tests.rs holds the two tests for the new behavior and the plain-shape boundary. docs/ui-parity.md and ROADMAP.md record the behavior, which the PR description states. No unrelated product behavior appears in the reviewed diff. The replacefonts_tests failure named in the PR description is stated to occur without this change. It is not a change in this diff. I did not verify that claim.

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Comment thread crates/engine/src/tools.rs Outdated
A click on the frame band of an unselected or selected text box or
placeholder started text editing, so the box could not be selected,
moved, duplicated or deleted from its frame. The frame band now selects
the box whole, like PowerPoint; only a click inside takes the caret.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>


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docs/ui-parity.md: kept main's status header lines; the PR's older header dropped, its new table row kept.
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This landed on main with 6971d55 (merge of 8bc3d3f), so I'm closing it. The head here only differs by a later rebase. Thanks!

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