The pen only pulled out the outgoing handle of a new point, because
the opposite handle was mirrored only if it already existed. The
first segment of every dragged point was therefore half a curve.
Beyond that bug, a point had no way to say how its handles relate.
- A vector point has an optional mode: straight, corner, smooth or
symmetric. Missing means corner. The mode is not part of the
fingerprint, because it changes no pixel, only the next drag.
- Dragging a handle follows the mode. Corner leaves the other handle
alone, smooth turns it along and keeps its length, symmetric
mirrors it exactly.
- The pen pulls out both handles mirrored and marks the point
symmetric. A plain click still sets a point without handles.
- The tab header has a "Point: ..." menu for the last clicked or set
point. That point is drawn filled. Changing its type is one undo
step. Text instead of four icons, because the UI kit has no
tooltips.
- Switching a point without handles to a curved type first grows
handles along its neighbours. Smooth and symmetric line the
handles up and keep the rough direction of the curve.
- A point inserted on a curve is smooth. Symmetric neighbours become
smooth, because the split shortens one of their handles.
- Alt-click still toggles between straight and symmetric.
Found on the way: the old Alt rounding took the point at the other
end of an open line as a neighbour, so its handles came out skewed.
Fixed and held by a unit test.
Existing points with handles now count as corner. Before, every drag
mirrored. No pixel changes, only the next drag behaves differently.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 129 files, 1917 tests, exit 0 (before 1903)
- GM_STEPS=47, freshly seeded: ALL PASSED, 39 checks (before 32)
- Check sum 1195 in README and wiki is computed (1188 + 7), CI
measures it
- Counter-checks: pen without 'symmetric' fails 3 checks, no smooth
branch fails 1 unit test and 1 e2e check
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>