Layers: the Layers panel and selection tools pass over art on an unlocked template layer by dotCooCoo · Pull Request #2759 · storytold/vectorcraft

dotCooCoo · 2026-10-17T16:26:14Z

What and why

A click with the Selection tool and Select All leave template layers out, locked or not, but other paths selected
their art once the layer was unlocked. On main, after layer.setProps {id: layer, template: true, locked: false},
the objects selected on the layer stay selected, and the target circle (layer.target), the selection column
(layer.selectAll), the Magic Wand, the Lasso, Direct Selection's presses and marquee and a Shaper tap select art on
it.

These paths now pass over a template layer and the objects on one as they pass over locked art. layer.target refuses
them with "template layers and their objects can't be selected", which has a row in each complete-message catalog,
and layer.selectAll selects nothing. Making a layer a template, or moving objects onto an unlocked one, deselects
them as locking does. A targeted layer with no art stops being targeted when it is made a template or locked.

How it was tested

All eight tests fail on main, and putting the changed checks back as on main makes each test fail at the check it
covers:

tests_layers::the_selection_column_and_the_target_circle_leave_template_art_out
tests_layers::a_template_layer_deselects_its_art_locked_or_not
tests_layers::an_empty_targeted_layer_made_a_template_or_locked_is_no_longer_targeted
cmd::wand::tests::template_layers_are_left_out
tests_shaper::shaper_taps_pass_over_a_template_layer
direct::tests::template_layers_are_passed_over_as_locked_ones_are
xform::wand::tests::lasso_passes_over_template_layers
i18n::tests::layer_target_template_param_error_is_translated

On Windows 11 (x86-64) with rustc 1.99.0, on top of main at bc1ae08:

CRAFT_FONTS_DIR=<craft-fonts checkout> cargo xtask ci passes its 10 steps: 8,578 tests passed, 0 failed, 13 ignored.

git merge-tree reports no conflicts with main at bc1ae08. It conflicts with #2592, which adds locked artboards to
the same checks in selection.rs, wand.rs, shaper.rs, direct.rs and the Lasso. Keeping its locked-artboard
checks and this template check at each of those lines resolves it.

Checklist

cargo xtask ci passes (fmt, clippy, tests, assets, brands, layers, wasm).
No panics in shipped code: no unwrap(), expect(), panic!, unreachable!, todo! or
unimplemented! outside tests, and no unchecked indexing on data from files, parameters or
messages. Errors are returned as Result and shown to the user
(why and how).
Clean-room: nothing copied from Adobe products or GPL/AGPL code (AGENTS.md).
Every new asset has a row in ASSETS.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

Bug Fixes
- Template layers and their artwork can no longer be selected or targeted, even when unlocked.
- Selection tools—including Magic Wand, Lasso, Direct Selection, and Shaper—now consistently skip template-layer content.
- Converting a layer to a template deselects its artwork while preserving correct undo behavior.
- Targeting template layers now returns a clear translated error.
- Selecting all on template layers or their sublayers now selects nothing.
Documentation
- Updated selection and targeting guidance to clarify template-layer behavior.

…cked template layer A click with the Selection tool and Select All leave template layers out, locked or not, but other paths selected their art once the layer was unlocked (Layer Options with Template on and Lock off): the Layers panel's target circle and selection column, the Magic Wand, the Lasso, Direct Selection's anchor and spine-point presses and its marquee, and a Shaper tap. layer.setProps {template: true, locked: false} also left the layer's objects selected, and a drag then moved them. These paths now pass over a template layer and the objects on one as they pass over locked art. layer.target refuses them with "template layers and their objects can't be selected", which has a row in each of the 17 complete-message catalogs. Making a layer a template, or moving objects onto an unlocked one, deselects them as locking does. Docs: docs/mcp.md.

bflatastic · 2026-10-17T18:30:38Z

Thanks @dotCooCoo. Holding this one for the project owner's call on parity: the public documentation calls template layers locked and nonprinting by default but doesn't say an unlocked template layer can't be selected or isolated, so we want to confirm Illustrator's behaviour before making it ours. The code itself looks fine.

FredApps

Read the full diff at this head. Document::is_selectable adds a template-layer check to is_editable and is used by selection pruning, the Layers panel's selection column and target circle, the Shaper group pick and the Magic Wand, so art on a template layer is no longer selectable even when unlocked, and the command descriptions say so. The new Magic Wand and Layers tests cover the unlocked template case. The FreeBSD build and test job passed at this head. Approving.

Messhias

Layers: the Layers panel and selection tools pass over art on an unlocked template layer. Checklist cargo xtask ci is ticked.

coderabbitai · 2026-10-21T00:32:18Z

📝 Walkthrough

Selection now excludes objects on template layers, including unlocked template layers. The change applies to layer commands, selection cleanup, Shaper, Magic Wand, Direct Selection, and Lasso. Tests and documentation cover these selection rules.

Changes: Template-layer selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Selection eligibility and layer commands `crates/doc/src/lib.rs`, `crates/doc/src/selection.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/layer.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests_layers.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/tests.rs`, `docs/mcp.md`	`Document::is_selectable` requires editability and excludes nodes on template layers. Selection cleanup and layer commands use this check. Tests cover selection, targeting, undo, and error translation.
Shaper and Magic Wand filtering `crates/engine/src/cmd/shaper.rs`, `crates/engine/src/cmd/wand.rs`, `crates/engine/src/tests_shaper.rs`, `docs/mcp.md`	Shaper and Magic Wand exclude template-layer content. Tests verify the behavior for unlocked template layers.
Direct Selection and Lasso filtering `crates/tools/src/direct.rs`, `crates/tools/src/xform/wand.rs`, `docs/mcp.md`	Direct Selection and Lasso exclude template-layer content. Regression tests cover anchor, spine-point, marquee, and lasso selection.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: bflatastic

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4b3f9

Two selection paths do not yet honor the PR’s template-layer exclusion, so the change should be corrected before merging.

Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4b3f9

The change narrows artwork selection without granting additional access or editing authority. The affected edits preserve document and selection state together through failure and undo.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — The demonstrated impact is selection and targeting within the active document. The inspected base-to-head changes narrow candidate sets rather than adding callers, privileged operations, or cross-service access.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

inferred — Template exclusion is a selection-eligibility rule, not comprehensive editing authorization. Unchanged explicit-ID selection commands and target resolution remain outside this predicate, so their existing reachability is not a bypass introduced by this PR. The change does not establish universal template exclusion across every command path.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: selection tools and the Layers panel skip art on unlocked template layers.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 80.49% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 41 functions across 11 files.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The pull request description includes all required sections. It explains the behavior change, lists the affected selection paths, documents the test coverage and environment, and marks every checklist…

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dotCooCoo · 2026-10-21T00:32:45Z

The new head 0b5fe57 merges main at bc1ae08. The one conflict was in crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/tests.rs, where main added effect_channel_param_error_is_translated next to this branch's layer_target_template_param_error_is_translated; the resolution keeps both tests, and ka.tsv and zh-hant.tsv get rows for the new "template layers and their objects can't be selected" message. On Windows 11 with rustc 1.99.0, cargo xtask ci passes its 10 steps (8,577 tests passed, 0 failed, 13 ignored), and the branch merges cleanly with main now.

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🟡 Minor · Apply template filtering to the enclosed Group Selection marquee. · direct.rs:815

crates/tools/src/direct.rs:815
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply template filtering to the enclosed Group Selection marquee.

When enclosed is true, this branch keeps IDs with is_editable, while the ordinary marquee uses is_selectable. An unlocked template layer can be isolated, and scoped hit::marquee traverses its children without checking template status. select.inside checks only bounds, and select.set accepts the resulting IDs. The enclosed Group Selection marquee can therefore select template-layer art.

Use is_selectable here and add a scoped enclosed-marquee regression test.
🐛 Suggested fix
-                    touched.retain(|id| cx.doc.is_editable(*id));
+                    touched.retain(|id| cx.doc.is_selectable(*id));
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Review comment at @crates/tools/src/direct.rs at line 815:
Update the enclosed marquee filtering in the Group Selection flow to use
cx.doc.is_selectable rather than cx.doc.is_editable, matching the ordinary
marquee behavior. Add a scoped regression test covering an enclosed marquee over
an unlocked template layer and verify template-layer art is not selected.

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Review comments at @crates/doc/src/selection.rs:
- Line 205: Update the selection cleanup method around the uneditable
calculation to independently validate the existing target with
doc.is_selectable, clearing target when it becomes an unselectable template
layer even if self.objects is empty. Preserve the existing uneditable-object
pruning behavior, and add coverage for the empty-layer transition after
set_target and layer.setProps.

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… template or locked Targeting an empty layer selects no objects, so Layer Options that made it a template or locked it found nothing to deselect and left the target in place. Appearance and transparency edits then still acted on a layer that layer.target refuses. The target is now cleared whenever it can't be selected, with or without selected art.

dotCooCoo · 2026-10-21T05:37:24Z

4b3f9b6: a targeted layer with no art selects no objects, so making it a template or locking it left the target in place, and appearance edits still went to it. The target is now cleared whenever it can't be selected. tests_layers::an_empty_targeted_layer_made_a_template_or_locked_is_no_longer_targeted covers both cases and undo.

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🟡 Minor · Filter shaper.scribble candidates with is_selectable. · shaper.rs:508-522

crates/engine/src/cmd/shaper.rs:508-522
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Filter shaper.scribble candidates with is_selectable.

The reachable shaper.scribble path filters supplied IDs with is_editable, so artwork on an unlocked template layer can remain a scribble candidate and be selected or isolated. Use is_selectable here. This is separate from the Group Selection marquee path.
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-                st.doc.is_editable(*id)
+                st.doc.is_selectable(*id)
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Appearance: the inline effect editor shows 3D, Warp, Rasterize and channel choices as dropdowns #2796

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