Live Paint: Live Paint Selection Tool Options set what a click selects and the highlight

[dotCooCoo]

What and why

Double-clicking the Live Paint Selection tool did nothing, and the tool always selected faces and edges and highlighted them in red at 4 px. The reference app's help page lists four options, opened by double-clicking the tool: Select Fills "Selects the faces (the area within edges) of Live Paint groups", Select Strokes "Selects the edges of Live Paint groups", Color "Sets the color for the highlight", and Width "Specifies how thick to make the selection highlight" (Live Paint Selection tool options). The page gives no defaults or ranges.

• Double-clicking the tool opens Live Paint Selection Tool Options (tool.options {tool: "livePaintSelection"}, dialog livePaintSelectionOptions). OK runs tool.setOption {tool: "livePaintSelection", values}. The options last across tool switches and are saved with the preferences.
• With Select Fills off, a click selects the edge nearest the pointer, as Alt-click does. With Select Strokes off, Alt-click selects the face under the pointer, as a click does. With both off, a click selects no face or edge. The hover highlight follows the same rule.
• Color (a layer color from the menu, or a custom color from the color button) and Width (1 to 20 px) set the highlight on the face or edge under the pointer. The 1 to 20 px range is VectorCraft's own.
• The defaults are the earlier behavior: both selections on, red (#ff2a2a) and 4 px. The Live Paint Bucket's highlight does not change.
• docs/mcp.md describes the options in its Live Paint entry, and docs/target-app-parity.md has one line about them. Select Fills and Select Strokes have rows in the 23 catalogs.

How it was tested

New tests, each failing without the change:

• builder::tests::live_paint_selection_options_choose_what_a_click_selects (vectorcraft-tools): the defaults; with Select Fills off a click inside a face selects nothing and a click by an edge selects the edge; with Select Strokes off Alt-click by an edge selects the face and highlights it; with both off nothing is selected or highlighted.
• builder::tests::live_paint_selection_options_set_the_highlight (vectorcraft-tools): the highlight's color and width follow the options; a layer color's name works; a value that is not a color or a number is ignored, and the width stays within 1 to 20.
• dialogs::live_paint_selection::tests::double_clicking_the_tool_opens_its_options_and_ok_sets_them (vectorcraft-ui-egui): tool.options opens the dialog on the defaults, OK sets the options, a click on a Live Paint group then follows them, and they last while another tool is chosen.

Also run: cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-tools --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test -p vectorcraft-ui-egui --lib i18n (60 passed), cargo xtask brands, cargo xtask layers and cargo xtask assets.

On macOS 27.0.1 (Apple Silicon) with rustc 1.99.0, on top of main at a466625:

• CRAFT_FONTS_DIR=<craft-fonts checkout> cargo xtask ci passes its 10 steps: 8,337 tests passed, 0 failed, 12 ignored.

git merge-tree reports no conflicts with main at a466625.

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

• New Features
  • Added options for the Live Paint Selection tool to choose whether clicks select fills, strokes, or both, and to customize highlight color and width.
  • Added a tool options dialog; settings persist when switching tools.
• Documentation
  • Documented the selection options, click behavior, and highlight settings.

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📝 Walkthrough

Live Paint Selection now supports configurable fill and stroke selection, highlight color, and width. A new Tool Options dialog edits these settings, which persist across tool switches. The Live Paint Bucket tool retains its previous highlight defaults.

Changes: Live Paint Selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Selection modes and highlights crates/tools/src/builder.rs	The Live Paint Selection tool can enable fill and stroke selection, choose highlight colors, and set highlight width. Invalid option values are ignored, and finite widths are clamped to 1–20 px. Tests cover selection modes and highlight options. The Live Paint Bucket tool passes its prior red, 4 px defaults to the shared overlay function.
Options dialog and persistence crates/tools/src/settings.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/live_paint_selection.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/mod.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/toolbar.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs, docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md	The new dialog loads and applies the four tool options. The settings are registered for persistence and the dialog is available through Tool Options. Tests cover applying and reopening options. Documentation describes the selection behavior and settings.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant Toolbar
  participant Dialog as Live Paint Selection options dialog
  participant Tool as LivePaintSelectionTool
  User->>Toolbar: Open Tool Options
  Toolbar->>Dialog: Open options dialog
  Dialog->>Tool: Read current options
  User->>Dialog: Edit options and confirm
  Dialog->>Tool: Apply options with setOption

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Suggested reviewers: bflatastic

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 608c7

Some highlighted edges cannot be selected by clicking at the highlighted point. This is a bounded issue, but edge clicks should match the hover target.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 608c7

The inspected changes remain within local selection and highlighting behavior. Validation and preference ownership are preserved, and no new privilege or remote-access path was identified. The assessment is limited to the inspected flows.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected option path affects selection and overlays in the current document, with configuration retained in the session's preferences. These options do not themselves introduce a document-editing operation or additional execution authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The edge-hover fallback lacks a visibility check and can produce an overlay from hidden Live Paint geometry. This predates the PR through Alt-hover; disabling fills now reaches it through ordinary hover. Click selection remains visibility-gated. This establishes changed interaction reachability, but not a new security authority boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Direct command input and restored preferences pass through the same tool-owned setters. Unknown tool IDs are rejected by the command handler. The tool ignores unknown keys and malformed values, parses colors, and accepts only finite widths clamped to 1–20 px.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Applying multiple keys is sequential rather than transactional, but the new setters have no error-return path and independently normalize each value. Repetition preserves canonical values, and option changes clear stale hover state. No new partial-application security failure was identified in this transition.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Passed checks: 4 passed

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- Line 779: Update the click-selection fallback in the lp_hover path to use the
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node matches the highlighted edge rather than the Live Paint group.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Select the edge node returned by edge_near.

When Select Fills is off, lp_hover can highlight an edge outside every face. The click path still requires live_paint_at, so it can clear the selection instead of selecting the highlighted edge.

The edge fallback must use the ID returned by edge_near. Do not assign n.id from the group walk; that selects the Live Paint group rather than the edge target required by the selection action.

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Review comment at @crates/tools/src/builder.rs at line 779:
Update the click-selection fallback in the lp_hover path to use the edge ID
returned by edge_near when live_paint_at finds no face, so the selected node
matches the highlighted edge rather than the Live Paint group.

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[bflatastic]

Thanks @dotCooCoo, merged. It went through the full gate (fmt, clippy, tests, layers, wasm) in a batch with the other PRs landed today.