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Feature(UI): Add text tool to canvas (#8723)
* Initial mashup of mentioned feature. Still need to resolve some quirks and kinks.

* Clean text tool integration

* Fixed text tool opions bar jumping and added more fonts

* Touch up for cursor styling

* Minor addition to doc file

* Appeasing frontend checks

* Prettier fix

* knip fixes

* Added safe zones to font selection and color picker to be clickable without commiting text.

* Removed color probing on cursor and added dynamic font display for fallback, minor tweaks

* Finally fixed the text shifting on commit

* Cursor now represent actual input field size. Tidy up options UI

* Some strikethrough and underline line tweaks

* Replaced the focus retry loop with a callback‑ref based approach in in CanvasTextOverlay.tsx
Renamed containerMetrics to textContainerData in CanvasTextOverlay.tsx
Fixed mouse cursor disapearing during typing.

* Added missing localistaion string

* Moved canvas-text-tool.md to docs/contributing/frontend

* ui: Improve functionality of the text toolbar

Few things done with this commit.

- The varying size of the font selector box has been fixed. The UI no longer shifts and moves with font change.
- We no longer format the font size input to add px each time. Instead now just have a permanent px indicator.
- The bug with the random text inputs on the slider value has also been fixed.
- The font size value is only committed on blur keeping it consistent with other editing apps.
- Fixed the spacing of the toolbar to make it look cleaner.
- Font size now permits increments of 1.

* Added autoselect text in font size on click allowing immediate imput

* Improvement: Added uncommited layer state with CTRL-move and options to select line spacing.

* Added rotation handle to rotate uncommiitted text layer.

* Fix: Redirect user facing labels to use localization file + Add tool discription to docs

* Fixed box padding. Disable tool swich when text input is active, added message on canvas for better UX.

* Updated  Text tool description

* Updated  Text tool description

* Typo

* Add draggable text-box border with improved cursor feedback and larger hit targets. Supress hotkeys on uncommitted text.

* Lint

* Fix(bug): text commit to link uploaded image assets instead of embedding full base64

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Co-authored-by: Lincoln Stein <lincoln.stein@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: blessedcoolant <54517381+blessedcoolant@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-02-20 01:43:32 +00:00
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cuda-sysmem-fallback.png docs: add section about disabling the sysmem fallback 2025-01-09 11:20:05 +11:00
database.md
gallery.md
hotkeys.md feat(ui): improve hotkey customization UX with interactive controls and validation (#8649) 2025-11-16 14:35:37 +00:00
low-vram.md Update Low-VRAM docs guidance around max_cache_vram_gb. 2025-02-28 17:18:57 -05:00
orphaned_model_removal.md feat(model_manager): Add scan and delete of orphaned models (#8826) 2026-02-06 22:32:10 +00:00
Text_tool.md Feature(UI): Add text tool to canvas (#8723) 2026-02-20 01:43:32 +00:00