Part of #516: the in-window menus' Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste act on a focused field

The clipboard keys already went to a focused text field, but on Windows,
Linux and the web the press that opens a menu takes the keyboard from the
field, so Edit > Copy (and Cut, Paste, Select > All) acted on the art.
The menu bar now keeps the field that had the keyboard, and its
selection, while the menus are open; those four commands go to it as the
events their keys send, the frame after the click that chose them, and
give it the keyboard back. Everything else, and those commands with no
field, run as before. The macOS menu bar shares the same helpers.

Tests: Copy, Cut and Paste events in the W field and the Color panel's
hex field edit the text, never the art; Select > All, Edit > Copy and
Edit > Paste clicked in the in-window menus act on the field.

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

ROADMAP.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ VectorCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Adob
 
 This file tracks **how far we are and what's left**. Time estimates are wall-clock hours of continuous Claude Opus 5.5 agent work (including builds and the CI gate), given both for **one agent** and for **4–6 parallel agents** on disjoint crates. They are counted from the remaining work (see [Parity estimate](#parity-estimate)), calibrated against measured throughput, and updated as work lands.
 
-_Last updated: 2026-10-08 (after M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into flLine truncated
+_Last updated: 2026-10-09 (after M4.14–M4.98, M8.1–M8.20, M14.4–M14.7, the MCP prompts, resource templates, completions and logging, the 2026-10-07 issue fixes, the Layers panel rework and the 2026-10-08 community contributions: Pen and shape-tool modifiers, path editing, Layers, Artboards, Swatches/Brushes and dialogs, Japanese composition and PDF text, Hebrew/Arabic type, interface languages (Spanish among them), the font menu, saved selections, MCP and EPS, the missing-font export warning (#319), open paths in the Shape Builder (#374), PDF/`.ai` import keeping strokes live and hidden and nested layers (#372), per-corner Live Corners (#381), SVG type opening at the size it draws at (#396), the Wayland clipboard with copied-file paste (#398), ruler guides that can be selected, moved and deleted (#414), two batches of Preferences options that were stored but unused (#394), skeleton reads with `document.find` for large documents over MCP (#416) and anchors dragged with Direct Selection snapping to points, segments and smart guides, clipped SVG layers opening as clipping layers (#420), PDF/`.ai` layers read on pages of tens of millions of operators (#419), Document Color Mode putting RGB greys on the black plate on request and converting pattern tiles (#421) and movable dialogs with Offset Path's Joins dropdown (#423) and numeric fields scrubbed by dragging their label (#400), stroke weight presets in the stroke unit (#426), the Appearance panel's Opacity popup (#430), type on a path brackets, flip and Type on a Path Options that keep the type in place (#429), Layers rows dragged with a ghost and dropped on the trash or New Layer (#435), tool flyouts opening on a right or corner press (#436), tool flyouts torn off into floating toolbars (#437), the Shape Builder's erase mode deleting edges too (#439), installed fonts registered outside the font folders and fonts installed while the app runs listed in the font menus (#443), alike circular corners on rectangles that aren't square (#442), tool cursors as OS cursors so the pointer no longer trails over the canvas (#444), artboards copied and pasted with their art (#446), guides dragged out of the rulers snapping to the art's side midpoints and the artboards, artboard guides (#451), the toolbar's double arrow and Window › Toolbars › Double Column switching between one and two columns in any window height (#455), the Smart Guides display options and Snapping Tolerance (#394), Font Size and Leading combo boxes with preset lists in the Character and Properties panels and the Control bar (#458), screenshots pasted from the clipboard on macOS, Windows and the web (#457), the Properties panel's Fill and Stroke matching the Control bar's, Illustrator's Window menu panel keys (Shift+F7 for Align…) and Alt-wheel zoom whatever the wheel preference (Discord feedback), the point/area type widget (Discord feedback), groups in legacy Illustrator .ai files (Discord feedback), a rotating desktop log file (#465), image controls in the Control bar and Properties panel: Image Trace with its presets, Mask, Crop Image, Embed/Unembed, and an Image Trace object's preset, Expand and Release (Discord feedback), the Pen working as the Anchor Point tool with Alt held over a selected path's handles and anchors, and anchor buttons that convert, connect and cut paths at the selected anchors (Discord feedback), Japanese hanging punctuation (burasagari, #463), Escape leaving Presentation Mode with no screen mode saved across restarts, documents dropped on the desktop app opening as tabs of their own and a note that an `.ai` file's art off its artboards isn't in the part read (#472), Add/Delete Anchor Point tool icons drawn from the Pen tool's (#479), EPS import running more of PostScript Level 3 (patterns, Type 3 fonts, mesh shadings, masked images, VM and resource probes), and a preview that stands in saying why (Discord feedback, #466, #469, #474), chords with modifiers recorded in Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts (#487), Type Object Selection by Path Only (#394), Anti-aliased Artwork (#394), Show Pixel Grid (#394), pen and touch taps pressed and lifted within one frame clicking where they tapped and the Linux/Wayland pen-tablet workaround (#491), bounding-box resizes landing on the other objects' anchors and centres with labels, and the Rotate, Scale, Shear and Reflect tools snapping their drags (#482), Shift-drag marquees that toggle the objects or anchors they reach and a Lasso whose Alt subtraction keeps the rest of the selection (#483), the mouse wheel stepping the focused numeric field, the dialogs' and preferences' drag values made such fields (#485), Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open (#394), Numbers Without Units Are Points (#394), Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels (#394), the Contextual Task Bar moved by its handle and its More Options menu pinning and resetting its position, a designed macOS DMG window (#493), panels, panel groups and the Tools panel undocking into flLine truncated
 
 ## Where we are
 
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ grade by behaviour against `plan/illustrator/`, not by whether a menu item exist
   - Dialogs open with their first field focused and its value selected: type a value and press Enter (Move, Rotate, Scale…). Number fields in panels, the Control bar and dialogs (preferences too) step with Up/Down, or with the mouse wheel over the focused field (#485: a notch a step; the panel under it then stays put, and an unfocused field leaves the wheel to scrolling) (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth of their unit), applied at once.
   - Scrubby labels (#400, beyond Illustrator, as in Photoshop): dragging a numeric field's label left or right (the ↔ cursor shows over it) steps the value one unit every 2 points (Shift: ten, Ctrl/Cmd: a tenth; counts stay whole), in the field's unit and within its limits, applied live as the art follows; the whole drag is one undo step and Escape puts the value back. A click on the label focuses the field; the text box itself never scrubs, and a field with no label doesn't. Text labels before a field (Transform, Properties, Control bar, Stroke, Transparency, form rows in dialogs) and the Character and Paragraph panels' icons act as labels. Preferences › General › Scrub Numeric Fields by Dragging (on by default) turns it off.
   - Tab shows and hides the panels (in the Type tool it types a tab) without moving the keyboard focus onto a field, so the next shortcut or letter still works; in dialogs and panel fields it moves between fields.
-  - Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also `select.all` over MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too. Not yet: Select All across threaded frames (one frame's text is selected).
+  - Cmd/Ctrl+A follows the keyboard: in a panel, dialog or search field it selects the field's text, while the Type tool edits it selects all of that text (also `select.all` over MCP), and only otherwise every object. On macOS the menu bar's Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste (keys or clicks) act on a focused field too, and elsewhere the in-window menus' do: the field that had the keyboard when the menu opened gets them, with its selection, and the keyboard back (#516). Not yet: Select All across threaded frames (one frame's text is selected).
   - On Windows and Linux the app bar is the window's title bar (its own minimize, maximize and close buttons, drag to move, edges to resize), with the dragon app icon as the brand mark; dialogs and menus size to their content. As on a native menu bar, once one menu is open, moving the pointer onto another title opens that one.
 - **Tools:**
   - **Selection:** Selection, Direct/Group Selection, Magic Wand, Lasso. A Shift-drag marquee toggles what it reaches: objects with the Selection tool, anchors with Direct and Group Selection (#483); the Lasso adds with Shift and subtracts with Alt. Dragging a path segment with Direct Selection bends it when it's curved (its anchors stay) and moves its two anchors when it's straight, one undo step; the fill, Shift or Alt still pick the whole path (Alt-drag copies it).

crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs

@@ -2642,9 +2642,24 @@ pub fn context_menu_body(app: &VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui, clicked: &mut
 /// The in-window menu bar. Returns where its titles end (x): the bar itself takes the full width.
 pub fn menu_bar(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui) -> f32 {
     let t = Tokens::get(ui.ctx());
+    let ctx = ui.ctx().clone();
+    // The press that opens a menu takes the keyboard from a focused text field: the field and its
+    // selection are kept while the menus are open, so their Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste act on
+    // its text (#516), the frame after the click that chose them (that click takes the keyboard
+    // from it again).
+    type Field = (egui::Id, egui::text_edit::TextEditState);
+    let (field_key, chosen_key) = (egui::Id::new("menu-bar-field"), egui::Id::new("menu-bar-field-event"));
+    if let Some(((field, state), e)) = ctx.data(|d| d.get_temp::<(Field, egui::Event)>(chosen_key)) {
+        ctx.data_mut(|d| d.remove::<(Field, egui::Event)>(chosen_key));
+        state.store(&ctx, field);
+        to_field(&ctx, field, e);
+    }
+    if let Some(field) = focused_text_field(&ctx).and_then(|id| Some((id, egui::TextEdit::load_state(&ctx, id)?))) {
+        ctx.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp::<Field>(field_key, field));
+    }
     let mut clicked: Option<(String, Value)> = None;
     let tree = menu_tree();
-    let end = egui::MenuBar::new()
+    let (end, open) = egui::MenuBar::new()
         .ui(ui, |ui| {
             let mut titles = Vec::with_capacity(tree.len());
             for (i, (title, items)) in tree.iter().enumerate() {
@@ -2655,12 +2670,21 @@ pub fn menu_bar(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui) -> f32 {
                 };
                 titles.push(ui.menu_button(text, |ui| menu_body(app, ui, items, &mut clicked)).response);
             }
-            switch_on_hover(ui.ctx(), &titles);
-            ui.cursor().min.x
+            (ui.cursor().min.x, switch_on_hover(ui.ctx(), &titles))
         })
         .inner;
+    let field = ctx.data(|d| d.get_temp::<Field>(field_key));
+    if !open && focused_text_field(&ctx).is_none() {
+        ctx.data_mut(|d| d.remove::<Field>(field_key));
+    }
     if let Some((id, p)) = clicked {
-        invoke(app, &id, p);
+        match field.and_then(|f| Some((f, field_event(app, &id)?))) {
+            Some(chosen) => {
+                ctx.data_mut(|d| d.insert_temp(chosen_key, chosen));
+                ctx.request_repaint();
+            }
+            None => invoke(app, &id, p),
+        }
     }
     end
 }
@@ -2673,29 +2697,25 @@ fn pointer_reaches_title(ctx: &egui::Context, title: &egui::Response, p: egui::P
 }
 
 /// Like a native menu bar: while one top-level menu is open, moving the pointer onto another
-/// title opens that menu instead (egui alone needs a click on each title).
-fn switch_on_hover(ctx: &egui::Context, titles: &[egui::Response]) {
+/// title opens that menu instead (egui alone needs a click on each title). Returns whether a menu
+/// is open.
+fn switch_on_hover(ctx: &egui::Context, titles: &[egui::Response]) -> bool {
     let ids: Vec<egui::Id> = titles.iter().map(egui::Popup::default_response_id).collect();
     let Some(open) = ids.iter().position(|id| egui::Popup::is_id_open(ctx, *id)) else {
-        return;
+        return false;
     };
     // `Response::hovered` is false while a menu's popup is open, so hit-test the titles here.
-    let Some(p) = ctx.pointer_hover_pos() else {
-        return;
-    };
     // Only a moving pointer switches: one resting on a title leaves the open menu alone.
-    if ctx.input(|i| i.pointer.delta() == egui::Vec2::ZERO) {
-        return;
-    }
-    let Some(i) = titles.iter().position(|title| pointer_reaches_title(ctx, title, p)) else {
-        return;
-    };
-    if i != open
+    let moving = ctx.input(|i| i.pointer.delta() != egui::Vec2::ZERO);
+    if let Some(p) = ctx.pointer_hover_pos().filter(|_| moving)
+        && let Some(i) = titles.iter().position(|title| pointer_reaches_title(ctx, title, p))
+        && i != open
         && let Some(id) = ids.get(i)
     {
         egui::Popup::open_id(ctx, *id);
         ctx.request_repaint();
     }
+    true
 }
 
 /// A top-level menu's popup: as wide as its widest item (label plus shortcut), at least 230 pt;
@@ -2840,13 +2860,21 @@ fn field_event(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, id: &str) -> Option<egui::Event> {
 /// Copy and Paste act on the field's text, as their keys do; everything else (and those commands
 /// with no field focused) goes to [`invoke`].
 pub fn invoke_from_system_menu(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ctx: &egui::Context, id: &str, p: Value) {
-    if ctx.text_edit_focused()
-        && let Some(e) = field_event(app, id)
-    {
-        ctx.input_mut(|i| i.events.push(e));
-        return;
+    match focused_text_field(ctx).and_then(|f| Some((f, field_event(app, id)?))) {
+        Some((field, e)) => to_field(ctx, field, e),
+        None => invoke(app, id, p),
     }
-    invoke(app, id, p);
+}
+
+/// The text field that has the keyboard, if any.
+fn focused_text_field(ctx: &egui::Context) -> Option<egui::Id> {
+    ctx.memory(|m| m.focused()).filter(|&id| egui::TextEdit::load_state(ctx, id).is_some())
+}
+
+/// Give text field `field` the keyboard (back) and event `e`, a [`field_event`], this frame.
+fn to_field(ctx: &egui::Context, field: egui::Id, e: egui::Event) {
+    ctx.memory_mut(|m| m.request_focus(field));
+    ctx.input_mut(|i| i.events.push(e));
 }
 
 /// Invoke a menu/command id with UI side effects (dialogs for "…" commands that need input).

crates/ui-egui/src/tests_selectall.rs

@@ -171,3 +171,94 @@ fn cmd_a_on_the_canvas_selects_all_objects() {
     a.menu("select.all");
     assert_eq!(a.selected(), 2, "so does the menu's Select All");
 }
+
+/// The copied texts of a frame's output.
+fn copied(out: &egui::FullOutput) -> Vec<String> {
+    out.platform_output.commands.iter().filter_map(|c| if let egui::OutputCommand::CopyText(t) = c { Some(t.clone()) } else { None }).collect()
+}
+
+/// #516: Ctrl/Cmd+C, X and V in a focused field (the window's own clipboard keys, which egui sends
+/// as Copy, Cut and Paste events) edit the field's text, never the art.
+#[test]
+fn the_clipboard_keys_in_a_focused_field_edit_its_text() {
+    let mut a = App::new();
+    a.app.run("window.panel", json!({"panel": "color"})).unwrap();
+    for _ in 0..3 {
+        a.frame(vec![]);
+    }
+    for text in ["37 pt", "FFFFFF"] {
+        let (id, rect) = a.field(text);
+        a.frame(vec![Event::PointerMoved(rect.center()), click(rect.center(), true)]);
+        a.frame(vec![click(rect.center(), false)]);
+        a.frame(vec![press(Key::A, Modifiers::COMMAND)]);
+        assert!(a.ctx.memory(|m| m.has_focus(id)), "{text}: the field has the keyboard");
+        let out = a.frame(vec![Event::Copy]);
+        assert_eq!(copied(&out), [text], "Copy copies the field's text");
+        assert!(a.app.session.clipboard.is_empty(), "{text}: no art copied");
+        let out = a.frame(vec![Event::Cut]);
+        assert_eq!(copied(&out), [text], "Cut cuts the field's text");
+        a.frame(vec![Event::Paste("12".into())]);
+        assert_eq!(a.ctx.data(|d| d.get_temp::<String>(id)).as_deref(), Some("12"), "Paste pastes into the field");
+        assert_eq!(a.selected(), 1, "{text}: the art stays");
+        a.frame(vec![press(Key::Escape, Modifiers::NONE)]);
+    }
+}
+
+/// The centre of the text `label` painted last (in the topmost layer) in a frame's output; with
+/// `title`, the first one painted (the menu bar's).
+fn text_at(out: &egui::FullOutput, label: &str, title: bool) -> Pos2 {
+    let mut shapes: Box<dyn Iterator<Item = _>> = if title { Box::new(out.shapes.iter()) } else { Box::new(out.shapes.iter().rev()) };
+    shapes
+        .find_map(|s| match &s.shape {
+            egui::Shape::Text(t) if t.galley.text().trim() == label => Some(Rect::from_min_size(t.pos, t.galley.size()).center()),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("no {label:?} painted"))
+}
+
+/// A click on `at` → the frame after it.
+fn click_at(a: &mut App, at: Pos2) -> egui::FullOutput {
+    a.frame(vec![Event::PointerMoved(at), click(at, true)]);
+    a.frame(vec![click(at, false)]);
+    a.frame(vec![])
+}
+
+/// The in-window menus' Select › All, Edit › Copy and Edit › Paste act on the text field that had the keyboard
+/// when the menu was opened (the click on the menu took it), and give it the keyboard back.
+#[test]
+fn the_in_window_edit_menu_acts_on_the_field_it_was_opened_from() {
+    let mut a = App::new();
+    // Text on the system clipboard.
+    a.app.services.clipboard_read = Some(Box::new(|| Some("42 pt".into())));
+    let (id, rect) = a.field("37 pt");
+    a.frame(vec![Event::PointerMoved(rect.center()), click(rect.center(), true)]);
+    a.frame(vec![click(rect.center(), false)]);
+    let out = a.frame(vec![press(Key::End, Modifiers::NONE)]);
+    let (edit, select) = (text_at(&out, "Edit", true), text_at(&out, "Select", true));
+    let menu = |a: &mut App, title: Pos2, item: &str| {
+        let out = click_at(a, title);
+        assert!(!a.ctx.text_edit_focused(), "the menu took the keyboard");
+        click_at(a, text_at(&out, item, false))
+    };
+    menu(&mut a, select, "All");
+    assert!(a.ctx.memory(|m| m.has_focus(id)), "the field has the keyboard back");
+    assert_eq!(a.field_selection(id), Some((0, 5)), "Select All selected the field's text");
+    assert_eq!(a.selected(), 1, "not the art");
+    a.frame(vec![press(Key::End, Modifiers::NONE)]);
+    a.frame(vec![press(Key::A, Modifiers::COMMAND)]);
+    a.frame(vec![]);
+    let out = menu(&mut a, edit, "Copy");
+    assert_eq!(copied(&out), ["37 pt"], "Copy copied the field's text");
+    assert!(a.app.session.clipboard.is_empty(), "no art copied");
+    // Art on the app's clipboard (Paste is enabled): the field still takes the text.
+    a.app.run("edit.copy", json!({})).unwrap();
+    a.frame(vec![press(Key::A, Modifiers::COMMAND)]);
+    menu(&mut a, edit, "Paste");
+    assert_eq!(a.ctx.data(|d| d.get_temp::<String>(id)).as_deref(), Some("42 pt"), "Paste pasted into the field");
+    assert_eq!(a.selected(), 1, "nothing pasted on the canvas");
+    // With no field focused, the menu's Select All selects the art.
+    a.frame(vec![press(Key::Escape, Modifiers::NONE)]);
+    a.frame(vec![]);
+    menu(&mut a, select, "All");
+    assert_eq!(a.selected(), 2);
+}