The RTF producer and parser lacked support for text lists, failed to encode
non-ASCII characters properly (\uN), and treated first-line indents (\fi) as
absolute values rather than offsets relative to left indents (\li).
Additionally, paste operations ingested application-generated RTF rather than
the native internal archive, causing image attachments and tables to be stripped
during copy-paste workflows within the application.
* AppKit/CPTextView/_CPRTFProducer.j:
- Implement RTF serialization for text lists using list tables, override tables,
\levelmarker, \levelprepend, \lsN\ilvlK tags, and \listtext marker blocks.
- Encode non-ASCII characters via \uc0\uN syntax and compute \fi indents
relative to \li.
- Omit image attachment characters from text runs and adjust run starting indices
to accommodate list markers.
* AppKit/CPTextView/_CPRTFParser.j:
- Implement pre-pass parsing for list and override tables.
- Assign shared text lists to items using \ls and \ilvl, extracting marker formats
from \levelmarker or standard number/level definitions.
- Parse \uN sequences (skipping fallback characters) and evaluate relative \fi offsets.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextView.j:
- Configure paste handling to prioritize internal archives when clipboard RTF
originates from the application, ensuring image attachments and tables survive internal copy-paste.
* AppKit/CPTextView/_CPTableTextAttachment.j:
- Implement keyed archiving and decoding for table headers, rows, widths,
and configuration settings, reconstructing cell instances upon unarchiving.
* Tests/AppKit/CPRTFTest.j:
- Add comprehensive unit tests covering Unicode encoding, relative first-line indents,
TextEdit and Word list interoperability, and nested list round-trip fidelity.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextAttachmentTest.j:
- Add test coverage for table attachment archiving.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md:
- Mark intra-application copy and paste testing as completed.
- Log external rich text exchange limitations as open items.
Intra-application copy and paste now fully preserves images, tables, and lists,
while RTF serialization supports Unicode and structured hierarchical lists.
When no text was selected, CPTextView's changeFont: implementation
erroneously extracted the font to convert from the text storage at the
insertion point rather than from current typing attributes. Consequently,
repeated adjustments like Bigger or Smaller failed to accumulate, blank
document font sizing remained locked after one step, and output arguments
risked overwriting selection state.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextView.j:
- Update changeFont: to derive and convert fonts directly from typing
attributes when no selection is active, and post corresponding typing
attribute update notifications.
- Eliminate selection range output arguments that could inadvertently
modify active selection bounds.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextViewTest.j:
- Add unit tests verifying that repeated font modifications accumulate correctly
at zero-length insertion points.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md:
- Mark Bigger and Smaller actions without a selection as tested.
Bigger and Smaller menu commands now correctly compound font size adjustments for subsequent typed text, matching Cocoa behavior.
AppKit lacked a public text attachment class, preventing rich text documents
from embedding or inserting images.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextAttachment.j:
- Implement CPTextAttachment (modelled on NSTextAttachment) supporting
initialization via data and file type, contents, file types, images,
bounds, and keyed archiving.
- Adopt a TextKit 2-style view rendering architecture that scales images
to fit text container width and triggers layout updates upon asynchronous loading.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextStorage.j:
- Update attributedStringWithAttachment: to accept CPTextAttachment instances
alongside direct views, routing rendering through existing attachment pathways.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextView.j:
- Implement the insertImage: action (invoking browser file pickers) and
Command-V paste handling for images.
- Configure inserted attachments with responsive view instances scaled to
text width, omitting live views during pasteboard archiving.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextContainer.j:
- Adjust attachment bounds to match updated container widths during layout invalidation.
* AppKit/AppKit.j:
- Export CPTextAttachment.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextAttachmentTest.j:
- Add test coverage for data URLs, archiving, width scaling, insertion,
and serialized text output.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/Resources/MainMenu.xib, MainMenu.cib:
- Add Edit > Insert Image… menu item.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md:
- Mark image insertion testing as completed; log remaining image tasks as open.
Rich text documents now support embedded images inserted via file selection or clipboard paste.
CPTextView previously relied solely on browser clipboard events triggered by
keyboard equivalents, isolating Edit menu actions (Copy, Paste) to an internal
pasteboard. Consequently, menu operations ignored external system clipboard
modifications, and Command-V could mistakenly paste stale internal rich text
following an external copy operation.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextView.j:
- Distinguish menu- and button-driven clipboard actions from browser keyboard event handlers.
- Implement asynchronous Clipboard API integration to write plain text to the system clipboard on copy/cut and read external content for Paste and Paste as Plain Text.
- Implement intelligent clipboard reconciliation: preserve internal rich text if the system clipboard plain text matches, or ingest external system clipboard text (including for Command-V shortcuts).
- Ensure Cut operates correctly across all input vectors.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextViewTest.j:
- Add unit tests verifying text ingestion and pasting from the system clipboard.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md:
- Mark Edit menu clipboard synchronization as tested.
- Log rich-text serialization over the asynchronous Clipboard API as an opportunity for future improvement.
Copy, Cut, and Paste operations from the Edit menu now seamlessly exchange plain text with external applications.
AppKit lacked CPTextList and the textLists property on CPParagraphStyle,
preventing rich text from supporting bulleted or numbered lists. Additionally,
CPTextView derived its typing attributes from the character following the
insertion point upon selection changes, causing text appended at the end of a
document (and the Font Panel) to incorrectly revert to default styling.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextList.j:
- Implement CPTextList following NSTextList specifications, including standard
Cocoa marker formats, CPTextListPrependEnclosingMarker, starting item numbers,
markerForItemNumber:, isOrdered, and keyed archiving.
- Add rangeOfTextList:atIndex: and itemNumberInTextList:atIndex: category
extensions to CPAttributedString.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPParagraphStyle.j:
- Add textLists and setTextLists: properties with copy and archiving support.
- Implement paragraph style equality checks based on list identity.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextView.j:
- Implement setTextList: and the changeTextList: action method (routing marker
styles via sender tags). Adjacent paragraphs with matching styles join automatically.
- Implement list item keyboard navigation and editing mechanics: Return generates
subsequent list items, Return on an empty item terminates list context,
Tab at item origin nests levels, Shift-Tab promotes levels, and Delete at item
text origin strips list membership.
- Automate list item renumbering during live edits, paste operations, and undo/redo cycles.
- Update Paste Ruler routines to correctly synthesize, strip, and merge list markers.
- Fix typingAttributes and Font Panel attribute resolution to derive from the
first selected character or the character immediately preceding the insertion point.
* AppKit/CPKeyBinding.j:
- Bind Shift-Tab selector to insertBacktab:.
* AppKit/CPWindow/CPWindow.j:
- Update key event routing to dispatch Shift-Tab to first responders that accept Tab.
* AppKit/AppKit.j:
- Export CPTextList.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextListTest.j:
- Add unit test coverage for marker formatting, archiving, list range queries,
interactive list editing, Paste Ruler execution, and menu action validation.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextViewTest.j:
- Add test coverage verifying typing attributes at trailing insertion points.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/Resources/MainMenu.xib, MainMenu.cib:
- Add Format > List menu structures containing bulleted, numbered, and outline choices.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md:
- Mark list interaction testing as completed; log RTF list serialization as an open item.
CPTextView now provides Cocoa-compliant bulleted, numbered, and nested list support.
CPTextView lacked implementations for copyFont: and pasteFont:
(declared as abstract methods in CPText), causing standard Copy Style and Paste Style menu items to trigger exceptions when invoked.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextView.j:
- Implement copyFont: to copy character attributes (excluding paragraph style, matching Cocoa) of the initial selection character or current typing attributes to the font pasteboard.
- Implement pasteFont: to apply copied character attributes to the selection or typing attributes with undo support, preserving individual paragraph styles.
- Update menu validation logic to enable Copy Style in rich text and Paste Style in editable rich text when the font pasteboard contains valid styling.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextViewTest.j:
- Add unit tests covering style copying and pasting with and without active selections.
- Add test coverage for menu validation.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md:
- Record Copy Style and Paste Style as tested.
Copy Style and Paste Style now function consistently with Cocoa.
CPTextView lacked the superscript:, subscript:, unscript:, raiseBaseline:, and lowerBaseline: action methods.
Consequently, standard Baseline menu items targeting these actions were automatically disabled,
even though CPTypesetter and _CPLineFragment already possessed full layout support for baseline offset and superscript attributes.
* AppKit/CPTextView/CPTextView.j:
- Implement superscript:, subscript:, unscript:, raiseBaseline:, and lowerBaseline:.
- Apply attribute modifications to selected ranges or current typingAttributes.
- Register baseline operations with CPUndoManager.
- Implement menu validation logic to enable baseline actions only when the text view is editable and richText is true.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextViewTest.j:
- Add unit tests for superscript levels and baseline offsets across text ranges and typing attributes.
- Add test coverage for menu validation.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md:
- Remove resolved baseline management entry.
- Expand documentation on text layout and line fragment drawing.
- Document open items: Justify crash, kerning/ligature settings, and Font Panel integration.
- Note optimal line breaking as a candidate feature for future improvement.
nib2cib ignored the text view's Uses Ruler setting, and CPTextView, CPRulerView and CPRulerMarker archived none of their ruler state, so a ruler could not be configured in Interface Builder or survive archiving.
* CPScrollView.j: Set itself as the scroll view of decoded rulers.
* CPTextView/CPRulerMarker.j: Archive the marker's ruler, location, image and image origin, movability, removability and represented object.
* CPTextView/CPRulerView.j: Archive the ruler's orientation, client view, accessory view, markers, thicknesses, origin offset and measurement units.
* CPTextView/CPTextView.j: Archive usesRuler.
* Tools/nib2cib/NSTextView.j, Tools/nib2cib/NSTextViewSharedData.j: Read the Uses Ruler flag.
* Tests/AppKit/CPRulerViewTest.j: Add tests for ruler layout, measurement units, archiving and the Uses Ruler setting.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/Resources/MainMenu.xib, Resources/MainMenu.cib: Add the standard Format menu, whose Text submenu shows and hides the ruler.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/Resources/DocumentWindow.xib, Resources/DocumentWindow.cib: Rebuild the cib with the ruler setting, and adjust the window's initial position.
A text view handled undo: and redo: and registered its changes even when allowsUndo was NO, so Edit > Undo stayed enabled and did nothing.
Behaviour now follows canonical Cocoa: a text view that does not allow undo registers nothing and passes undo: and redo: on to the window, and Undo and Redo are enabled only when there is a change to undo or redo.
* CPTextView/CPTextView.j: Register changes only when undo is allowed, stop responding to undo: and redo: when it is not, and validate the Undo and Redo items against the undo manager.
* CPWindow/CPWindow.j: Validate the Undo and Redo items against the window's undo manager.
* Tests/AppKit/CPTextViewTest.j: Add tests for responding to undo:, registering changes and validating the Undo item.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/DocumentWindowController.j: Add toggleAllowsUndo: and validateMenuItem:, so that undo can be turned on and off for the active document.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/Resources/MainMenu.xib, Resources/MainMenu.cib: Add Edit > Allow Undo.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md: Remove the entry for this gap, record Allow Undo as tested, and add the key equivalent behaviour of disabled menu items for discussion.
The Window menu never listed the application's windows, because AppKit had none of Cocoa's Windows menu support.
* CPApplication.j: Add windowsMenu, setWindowsMenu:, addWindowsItem:title:filename:, changeWindowsItem:title:filename:, removeWindowsItem:, updateWindowsItem: and arrangeInFront:; find the menu named _CPWindowsMenu in the main menu, and list the visible windows when the main menu is set.
* CPWindow/CPWindow.j: Add isExcludedFromWindowsMenu and setExcludedFromWindowsMenu:, and keep the window's item current when the window is ordered in or out, retitled, made main or no longer main, miniaturized, deminiaturized or closed.
* Tests/AppKit/CPApplicationWindowsMenuTest.j: Add tests for listing, retitling, exclusion, the main window check mark, separator handling, file name titles and moving items to another Windows menu.
* Tests/Manual/TextEditor/WORKLIST.md: Remove the entry for this gap, and record the Window menu as tested.
CPScrollView's frame and content size calculations sized the vertical scroller with scrollerWidthForControlSize:, passing a scroller style, so it always took the legacy width.
* CPScrollView: Use scrollerWidthInStyle: for the vertical scroller in +contentSizeForFrameSize:… and +frameSizeForContentSize:….
* CPScrollViewTest: Add tests for both methods with a scroller whose widths differ by style.
CPDOMAvailable was read during load before it was assigned.
* CPCompatibility: Move the CPDOMAvailable assignment ahead of the engine detection, whose AppleWebKit case calls +[CPPlatform isBrowser], which reads it.
* CPCompatibilityTest: Add a test that re-executes CPCompatibility.j with an AppleWebKit user agent and CPDOMAvailable unset, failing on any exception.
- the 11 display-server primitives become plain functions in
Platform/DOM/CPDOMDisplayServer.j; bodies verbatim from the macro
definitions; the header was force-included into every AppKit
compilation by the legacy build and invisible to capp-build
- CPView.j, CPImageView.j, _CPDisplayServer.j import the new file;
this was the last header in either framework
- CPDOMDisplayServerTest: the raw #include replaced by the
framework-qualified import
- the six GET_LEVEL_INDICATOR_SEGMENT call sites become direct
layoutEphemeralSubviewNamed: messages; the macro was fully
parameterized with no ambient state
- the segment index is the literal 0 at every site, so the
concatenation folds to a constant string
- the warning comment about direct ephemeral-subview access is
retained
- CoreGraphics/CGContextVML.j removed; it implemented the CGContext
function family against Internet Explorer's VML, irrelevant in the
supported browser landscape for over a decade
- its self-replacing CGBitmapGraphicsContextCreate wrapper called
document.namespaces.add, an IE-only API — a latent crash on modern
browsers had the branch ever been selected
- CGContext.j: the CPVMLFeature branch of the load-time backend
selection removed; CPCompatibility.j: the CPVMLFeature constant and
its feature-table entry removed
- Tests/AppKit/CGContextTest.j: the vacuous VML-incompatibility
assertion removed
- the canvas backend and the no-canvas stubs are unchanged
Prefix unasserted performance tests with 'disabled_' in CPArrayControllerTest
and CPArrayPerformanceTest to eliminate wall-clock timing noise from standard
CI runs.
Add a dummy assertion to CPArrayPerformanceTest to maintain runner
compatibility without executing obsolete micro-benchmarks.
CPTreeNode.j:
* Correct index calculations in insertObject:inChildNodesAtIndex: and replaceObjectInChildNodesAtIndex:withObject:. Nodes no longer misplace during same-parent or cross-parent moves.
* Update _removeChildNode: to call removeObjectFromChildNodesAtIndex:. This ensures detaches notify childNodes observers on the original parent.
CPTreeNodeTest.j:
* Add test coverage for same-parent replacement, cycle rejection on replace-path, KVO during cross-parent moves, mutableChildNodes proxy operations, insertion bounds, non-recursive sorting, isLeaf, and descendantNodeAtIndexPath: edge cases.
* Disable same-parent childNodes KVO test. CPKeyValueObserving.j coalesces nested change notifications on the same key, which drops the inner removal event.
* Disable parentNode KVO test. No setParentNode: method exists to instrument.
* Add inline comments to both disabled tests explaining these mechanisms.
CPTreeNode: same-parent child moves no longer misplace the moved node — this corrects a defect in the class itself, properly exposed by the test.
Separately, the unit test's expectation for a root node's index path was itself wrong.
Corrected to match the class's existing, contract-correct behavior.
Test unit now runs cleanly.
David Richardson
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