Fix #555: the font menu scrolls only its list

egui's combo box puts its own scroll area around a combo's list, so the
font menu, which scrolls its families itself, had two scrollbars: once
the families reached their end the wheel scrolled the outer one, taking
the search field and the filters out of view.

The font menu (widgets::combo with searchable) now opens its list in a
popup of its own, drawn like the combo box, without that outer scroll
area: below the button, or above it when there is more room there. The
families list fills the popup's room under the search field and filters,
which stay at the top while the list scrolls.

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: 2026-10-09 (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
+_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
 

crates/ui-egui/src/font_menu.rs

@@ -307,12 +307,10 @@ fn list(ui: &mut Ui, state_id: egui::Id, st: &mut MenuState, current: &str, samp
         widgets::dim_label(ui, tl!("No matching fonts"));
         return None;
     }
-    // The rows: only those in view are laid out (there are thousands of families). The list fills
-    // what the popup shows below the filters (its clip: the popup doesn't grow past its own size,
-    // and a taller list would scroll inside a scrolling popup), down to the window's bottom.
-    const BOTTOM_GAP: f32 = 12.0;
-    let bottom = ui.clip_rect().bottom().min(ui.ctx().content_rect().bottom() - BOTTOM_GAP);
-    let room = (bottom - ui.next_widget_position().y).max(120.0);
+    // The rows: only those in view are laid out (there are thousands of families). The list is
+    // the menu's one scrolling part, under the search field and filters (#555): it fills the
+    // menu's room (its max rect) below them.
+    let room = (ui.max_rect().bottom() - ui.next_widget_position().y).clamp(120.0, 600.0);
     let mut area = egui::ScrollArea::vertical().max_height(room).min_scrolled_height(room.min(row_h * rows.len() as f32));
     // The highlight in view: centred as the menu opens, scrolled just enough as the keys move it.
     if let Some(top) = st.highlight.map(|i| i as f32 * row_h) {

crates/ui-egui/src/tests_font_menu.rs

@@ -270,3 +270,51 @@ fn menus_that_only_pick_a_font_leave_the_document_alone() {
     assert_eq!(picked(&mut app, Some(FontPick::Favorite("inter".into()))), None);
     assert!(app.ui.favorite_fonts.is_empty());
 }
+
+/// #555: the menu's search field and filters stay at its top while the wheel scrolls the families,
+/// past the list's end too: the list is the menu's one scrolling part.
+#[test]
+fn the_search_field_stays_put_while_the_list_scrolls() {
+    let ctx = egui::Context::default();
+    crate::theme::install_fonts(&ctx);
+    let frame = |events: Vec<egui::Event>| {
+        let input =
+            egui::RawInput { events, screen_rect: Some(egui::Rect::from_min_size(egui::Pos2::ZERO, egui::vec2(600.0, 500.0))), ..Default::default() };
+        let mut at = egui::Pos2::ZERO;
+        let mut out = ctx.run_ui(input, |ui| {
+            // Low in the window, as in a panel at the bottom of the dock: the menu opens upwards.
+            ui.add_space(390.0);
+            at = ui.next_widget_position();
+            font_menu(ui, "test-scroll", "Inter", 260.0, None, MenuLook::default());
+        });
+        out.textures_delta.clear();
+        let search = out.shapes.iter().find_map(|s| match &s.shape {
+            egui::Shape::Text(t) if t.galley.text() == "Search" => Some(t.pos),
+            _ => None,
+        });
+        (at, search)
+    };
+    let (at, _) = frame(vec![]);
+    let click = at + egui::vec2(40.0, 10.0);
+    let button = |pressed| egui::Event::PointerButton { pos: click, button: egui::PointerButton::Primary, pressed, modifiers: Default::default() };
+    frame(vec![egui::Event::PointerMoved(click), button(true)]);
+    frame(vec![button(false)]);
+    let mut field = None;
+    for _ in 0..5 {
+        field = frame(vec![]).1;
+    }
+    let field = field.expect("the search field shows");
+    let over_list = egui::pos2(field.x + 40.0, field.y + 120.0);
+    for dy in [-400.0, -4000.0, -4000.0] {
+        let wheel = egui::Event::MouseWheel {
+            unit: egui::MouseWheelUnit::Point,
+            delta: egui::vec2(0.0, dy),
+            modifiers: Default::default(),
+            phase: egui::TouchPhase::Move,
+        };
+        frame(vec![egui::Event::PointerMoved(over_list), wheel]);
+        for _ in 0..10 {
+            assert_eq!(frame(vec![]).1, Some(field), "the field stays where it was");
+        }
+    }
+}

crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs

@@ -655,11 +655,13 @@ pub(crate) fn combo<R>(
         .stroke(Stroke::new(1.0, t.input_border))
         .corner_radius(CornerRadius::same(3))
         .show(ui, |ui| {
+            if searchable {
+                return searchable_combo(ui, ui.id().with(id), current, width - 4.0, list);
+            }
             egui::ComboBox::from_id_salt(ui.id().with(id))
                 .selected_text(egui::RichText::new(current).size(12.0))
                 .width(width - 4.0)
-                .close_behavior(if searchable { egui::PopupCloseBehavior::CloseOnClickOutside } else { egui::PopupCloseBehavior::CloseOnClick })
-                .height(if searchable { f32::INFINITY } else { ui.spacing().combo_height })
+                .height(ui.spacing().combo_height)
                 .show_ui(ui, list)
                 .inner
                 .flatten()
@@ -667,6 +669,58 @@ pub(crate) fn combo<R>(
         .inner
 }
 
+/// A dropdown whose list keeps its own search field and scrolling rows (the font menu): drawn as
+/// egui's combo box, but in a popup without the scroll area egui puts around a combo's list, so
+/// the field stays at the top and only the rows scroll (#555). A click outside closes it.
+fn searchable_combo<R>(ui: &mut Ui, id: egui::Id, current: &str, width: f32, list: impl FnOnce(&mut Ui) -> Option<R>) -> Option<R> {
+    let popup = id.with("popup");
+    let open = egui::Popup::is_id_open(ui.ctx(), popup);
+    let pad = ui.spacing().button_padding;
+    let icon = Vec2::splat(ui.spacing().icon_width);
+    let galley = egui::WidgetText::from(egui::RichText::new(current).size(12.0)).into_galley(
+        ui,
+        Some(egui::TextWrapMode::Truncate),
+        width - 2.0 * pad.x - ui.spacing().icon_spacing - icon.x,
+        egui::TextStyle::Button,
+    );
+    let height = (galley.size().y.max(icon.y) + 2.0 * pad.y).max(ui.spacing().interact_size.y);
+    let (rect, resp) = ui.allocate_exact_size(vec2(width, height), Sense::click());
+    if ui.is_rect_visible(rect) {
+        let v = if open { ui.visuals().widgets.open } else { *ui.style().interact(&resp) };
+        ui.painter().rect(rect.expand(v.expansion), v.corner_radius, v.weak_bg_fill, v.bg_stroke, StrokeKind::Inside);
+        let inner = rect.shrink2(pad);
+        ui.painter().galley(egui::Align2::LEFT_CENTER.align_size_within_rect(galley.size(), inner).min, galley, v.text_color());
+        // egui's combo arrow: a downward triangle.
+        let arrow =
+            Rect::from_center_size(egui::Align2::RIGHT_CENTER.align_size_within_rect(icon, inner).center(), vec2(icon.x * 0.7, icon.y * 0.45));
+        ui.painter().add(egui::Shape::convex_polygon(
+            vec![arrow.left_top(), arrow.right_top(), arrow.center_bottom()],
+            v.fg_stroke.color,
+            Stroke::NONE,
+        ));
+    }
+    // It opens below the button, or above it when there is more room there, and the list gets
+    // the room left (the popup's frame aside).
+    const GAP: f32 = 12.0;
+    let screen = ui.ctx().content_rect();
+    let frame = ui.spacing().menu_margin.sum().y + GAP;
+    let (below, above) = (screen.bottom() - rect.bottom() - frame, rect.top() - screen.top() - frame);
+    let (align, room) = if below >= above { (egui::RectAlign::BOTTOM_START, below) } else { (egui::RectAlign::TOP_START, above) };
+    egui::Popup::menu(&resp)
+        .id(popup)
+        .width(rect.width())
+        .align(align)
+        .align_alternatives(&[])
+        .close_behavior(egui::PopupCloseBehavior::CloseOnClickOutside)
+        .show(|ui| {
+            ui.set_min_width(ui.available_width());
+            ui.set_max_height(room);
+            ui.style_mut().wrap_mode = Some(egui::TextWrapMode::Extend);
+            list(ui)
+        })
+        .and_then(|r| r.inner)
+}
+
 /// A popover anchored to `resp`, opened and closed by `toggle` (usually `resp.clicked()`), and
 /// closed by Escape, a click outside it and outside any popup it opened, or a frame in which its
 /// anchor isn't shown. Use it instead of `egui::Popup::menu` when the popover holds dropdowns or