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What and why

An airbrush pen has a finger wheel on its barrel. VectorCraft read a pen's pressure, tilt, bearing and rotation, but not the wheel, so a brush could not vary with it. The Brushes help page lists Stylus Wheel among the pen tablet options of brushes: a Calligraphic brush's diameter can follow the wheel, and an Art brush's Width menu offers the pen tablet options (Brushes, archived copy).

  • Brush Options offer Stylus Wheel for a Calligraphic brush's Size, a Scatter brush's Size and an Art brush's Width (Variation::StylusWheel, saved as stylusWheel). Angle, Roundness, Spacing, Scatter and Rotation do not offer it. The help page does not say how the wheel's travel maps to the value. VectorCraft's own rule: the value goes from its low end (the value less the variation, a Scatter brush's first value, an Art brush's Width) at one end of the travel to its high end at the other, and a stroke drawn without a wheel draws the value half way.
  • The Paintbrush records where the wheel was set along each stroke (StrokeLayer::wheel, 0..1). The recording stays with the path through saving, continuing a stroke, reversing a path and blends, and new art takes the look without it, as it does with the pressure.
  • Input: under X11 and XWayland the app reads XInput2's Abs Wheel valuator, scaled from its range to 0..1, and a pen that has not moved it reads no wheel. On macOS it reads AppKit's tangentialPressure (−1..1, NSEvent.tangentialPressure). Windows, the web build and native Wayland do not record the wheel yet. Windows pointer messages have no field for it (POINTER_PEN_INFO), so on Windows a pen reads no wheel.
  • Commands: path.freehand and brush.freehand take a point's wheel seventh, [x, y, pressure, tiltX, tiltY, rotation, wheel], or as wheel; pointer_gesture events take wheel. A value outside 0..1 is clamped, and one that is neither a number nor null is refused with "wheel must be a number" before anything changes.
  • .ai brush definitions read and write variation code 3 as Stylus Wheel. This changes existing behavior: an opened .ai brush value with code 3 used to vary at random when it had a variation, and to stay fixed when it had none.
  • appearance_heap_bytes (crates/doc/src/mem.rs) counted a stroke's pressure recording but not its tilt, bearing or rotation recordings. It now counts all five.
  • docs/mcp.md, the command params text, docs/target-app-parity.md (a new evidence line, Stylus Wheel added to the Calligraphic modes in the Brushes line, and the Art Brush Width line rewritten) and docs/file-format-parity.md describe the wheel. The new label "Stylus Wheel" has a row in each of the 27 catalogs.

How it was tested

New tests, each shown failing without the change:

  • the_stylus_wheel_varies_sizes_and_widths (crates/brush/src/tests.rs): a wheel ramp takes a Calligraphic nib from 2 pt to 10 pt, a Scatter brush's size from 12 pt to under 3 pt and an Art brush's width from 12 pt to 2 pt, while a pressure or tilt ramp, with a fixed bearing and rotation, leaves the Calligraphic nib and the Art brush's width at their middle values.
  • freehand_points_record_the_stylus_wheel (crates/engine/src/tests/brushsym.rs): path.freehand keeps the wheel given seventh or as a key, clamps it, refuses a string without changing the document, keeps it in step when a stroke is continued, the Paintbrush records it from the pen and draws a Size-on-Stylus-Wheel brush at 10 pt and 2 pt (6 pt with a mouse), and the stroke saves and reopens unchanged.
  • json_pen_reads_the_wheel_within_its_range (crates/tools/src/input.rs): a pointer event's wheel is clamped to 0..1 and a wheel that is not a number is left out.
  • every_pen_recording_of_a_stroke_counts (crates/doc/src/mem.rs): each of the five recordings adds to a stroke's counted bytes.
  • tablet::tests::an_airbrush_wheel_goes_into_the_feed and mac_tablet::tests::an_airbrush_wheel_goes_into_the_feed (apps/vectorcraft): the X11 valuator and the AppKit value reach the stylus feed as 0..1, clamped, and a pen reads no wheel until it reports one. On X11 a tablet pad's wheel and a pen without the valuator give no wheel.
  • more_brush_settings_are_read_back and a_calligraphic_brushs_pen_channels_come_in_by_their_codes (crates/eps): Calligraphic and Scatter brushes with Size on Stylus Wheel are written to an .ai file and read back, and code 3 reads as Stylus Wheel.

Existing tests extended for the wheel: strokes_without_pressure_round_trip_unchanged, pen_modes_without_a_recording_draw_the_value_itself, a_mouse_stroke_draws_pen_modes_as_pressure_did, brushes_without_modes_vary_randomly_as_before, paintbrush_sends_pen_tilt_and_rotation, and the stylus feed tests in vectorcraft-ui-egui.

Focused checks on x86-64 Linux. The branch is one commit on main at 1dbdbce91f and merges cleanly with it. It conflicts with open #4221 in crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/commands.rs. The commands run were:

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • cargo check --workspace --tests
  • cargo clippy -p vectorcraft-brush -p vectorcraft-doc -p vectorcraft-tools -p vectorcraft-render -p vectorcraft-engine -p vectorcraft-eps -p vectorcraft-mcp -p vectorcraft-ui-egui -p vectorcraft --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo test, filtered to the new and changed tests: vectorcraft-brush 4 passed, vectorcraft-doc 2, vectorcraft-tools 11, vectorcraft-eps 2, vectorcraft-engine tests::brushsym 79, vectorcraft-ui-egui canvas, stylus and i18n 422, vectorcraft tablet and mac_tablet 18; 0 failed.
  • cargo xtask brands, layers (30 crates) and assets (337 files)
  • cargo xtask ci runs in this pull request's CI.

The AppKit call that reads tangentialPressure (apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_tablet.rs, macOS only) and the wheel: None added in apps/vectorcraft/src/windows_stylus.rs (Windows only) were not compiled on Linux; the mapping and its test in mac_tablet.rs were. No airbrush pen was available, so the wheel was tested with synthetic events only.

cargo xtask ci passed in this pull request's CI run on e0ff711f8b: https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft/actions/runs/43478966625/job/132070165108. The gate on 4bb3ecb310 is pending.

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  • 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
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    (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
    • Airbrush stylus-wheel input can control size for Calligraphic and Scatter brushes, and width for Art brushes.
    • Wheel input can be recorded with strokes, supplied through pointer and freehand input, and retained through editing and saving.
    • Illustrator brush settings support Stylus Wheel variations in imports and exports.
  • Improvements
    • Brush settings offer variation options appropriate to each setting, and previews show stylus-wheel effects.
    • Recorded wheel values are interpolated along strokes; missing values use a midpoint.
  • Limitations
    • Stylus-wheel input is unavailable on Windows and the web. Stylus-wheel variation is not available for Pattern brushes.

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Brushes: an airbrush pen's stylus wheel varies brush size and width
e9a0d91 
Calligraphic and Scatter Brush Options offer Stylus Wheel for Size, and
Art Brush Options offer it for Width. The Paintbrush records where the
pen's finger wheel is set along each stroke (`StrokeLayer::wheel`, 0..1),
and the stroke keeps it through saving, continuing, reversing and blends.
A value on Stylus Wheel goes from its low end at one end of the wheel's
travel to its high end at the other; a stroke without a wheel draws the
value half way.

- Input: XInput2's `Abs Wheel` valuator under X11 and XWayland, and
  AppKit's `tangentialPressure` on macOS. Windows pointer messages have
  no field for the wheel.
- Commands: `path.freehand` and `brush.freehand` points take the wheel
  seventh or as `wheel`, and `pointer_gesture` events take `wheel`;
  values are clamped to 0..1 and non-numbers are refused.
- `.ai` brush definitions read and write variation code 3 as Stylus
  Wheel instead of reading it as Random, or as Fixed when the value has
  no variation.
- `appearance_heap_bytes` counts a stroke's tilt, bearing, rotation and
  wheel recordings as well as its pressure.

Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/file-format-parity.md.
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The change adds airbrush finger-wheel input on macOS and X11, carries wheel values through pen poses and stroke recordings, and adds Stylus Wheel brush variation. It also updates brush controls, Illustrator variation-code handling, stroke processing, tests, and documentation.

Changes: Stylus Wheel Support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Read and normalize pen wheel input
apps/vectorcraft/src/mac_tablet.rs, apps/vectorcraft/src/tablet.rs, apps/vectorcraft/src/windows_stylus.rs, crates/tools/src/input.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/stylus.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/canvas/tests.rs		 macOS and X11 readers provide wheel input. Shared pen poses sanitize it to the 0–1 range. Windows poses leave it absent.
Record and preserve wheel profiles
crates/doc/src/appearance/*, crates/doc/src/blend.rs, crates/doc/src/mem.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/*, crates/engine/src/tests/brushsym.rs, crates/tools/src/draw2/gesture*, crates/mcp/src/tools/definitions.rs, docs/mcp.md		 Freehand points and paintbrush poses can add wheel values to optional stroke profiles. Stroke serialization, blending, reorientation, memory accounting, and input documentation include wheel data.
Apply wheel-driven brush variation
crates/brush/src/*, crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs/brush_*, crates/ui-egui/src/panels/brushes.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/brushsym.rs, crates/eps/src/ai_editing/tests.rs		 StylusWheel is added as a brush variation for size fields. Brush evaluation reads the recorded profile, and the UI offers the variation and previews wheel input. Tests cover brush behavior and serialization.
Update interchange and stroke handling
crates/eps/src/ai_editing/writer/brushes.rs, crates/eps/src/import/ai/*, crates/render/src/changed.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/globaledit.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/commands.rs, docs/file-format-parity.md, docs/target-app-parity.md, docs/mcp.md		 Illustrator variation code 3 maps to StylusWheel. Wheel-controlled strokes use whole-object change handling, and global edits retain each member’s wheel setting. Command and parity documentation describes wheel support.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GestureTool
  participant stroke_json
  participant samples_param
  participant PenRecord
  participant StrokeLayer
  participant PenAt
  GestureTool->>stroke_json: serialize points with optional wheel values
  stroke_json->>samples_param: pass freehand point arrays
  samples_param->>PenRecord: parse and record wheel samples
  PenRecord->>StrokeLayer: write optional wheel profile
  StrokeLayer->>PenAt: provide profile for brush evaluation
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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 6d865

This change adds airbrush stylus-wheel input and uses it to vary brush size and width on supported platforms. No concrete defects remain after review. The earlier documentation-history request was left to the maintainers, so it does not block merging.

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Art Brush Options' Width (1% to 1000%) and Pattern Brush Options' Scale (1% to 10000%) each have a slider beside the field, over the same range in whole percents; screen readers name the slider as its row and read the field's value.
Art Brush Options' Width has a Fixed or Pressure menu, from the pen tablet options of the Width pop-up menu on the [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) page (archived copy). With Pressure, the art is Width wide at the lightest pen pressure and the second width at the heaviest, following the pressure the Paintbrush recorded along the stroke, and half way between them on a stroke without recorded pressure (`brush.options` `width_mode` and `width_max`); a stroke inside the art takes the width at the middle of its object. The page does not say how the pressure maps to the width; taking the Scatter brush's minimum and maximum rule and the stroke rule are VectorCraft's own. The menu also offers Tilt, Bearing and Rotation: the art goes from Width with the pen lying flat to the second width upright, and from Width at −180° to the second width at 180° of the pen's bearing or barrel rotation, as Scatter Brush Options' modes do, and half way on a stroke without that input; the page does not say which way each runs, so that mapping is VectorCraft's own. Evidence: `tests::art_brush_width_follows_tilt_bearing_and_rotation` (vectorcraft-brush). Stylus Wheel is not built.
Art Brush Options' Width has a Fixed or Pressure menu, from the pen tablet options of the Width pop-up menu on the [Brushes](https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html) page (archived copy). With Pressure, the art is Width wide at the lightest pen pressure and the second width at the heaviest, following the pressure the Paintbrush recorded along the stroke, and half way between them on a stroke without recorded pressure (`brush.options` `width_mode` and `width_max`); a stroke inside the art takes the width at the middle of its object. The page does not say how the pressure maps to the width; taking the Scatter brush's minimum and maximum rule and the stroke rule are VectorCraft's own. The menu also offers Tilt, Bearing and Rotation: the art goes from Width with the pen lying flat to the second width upright, and from Width at −180° to the second width at 180° of the pen's bearing or barrel rotation, as Scatter Brush Options' modes do, and half way on a stroke without that input; the page does not say which way each runs, so that mapping is VectorCraft's own. Evidence: `tests::art_brush_width_follows_tilt_bearing_and_rotation` (vectorcraft-brush). The menu also offers Stylus Wheel (next item).
- **Airbrush stylus wheel:** Calligraphic and Scatter Brush Options offer Stylus Wheel for Size, and Art Brush Options for Width, as the help page lists it (<https://web.archive.org/web/20241230205225/https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/brushes.html>). The Paintbrush records where an airbrush pen's finger wheel is set along each stroke (kept with the path, saved, joined when a stroke continues a path, and interpolated by blends). A Calligraphic Size goes from size − variation at one end of the wheel's travel to size + variation at the other, a Scatter Size from its first value to its second, and an Art Width from Width to the second width; a stroke without a wheel draws the value half way. The direction of travel and the half-way value for a stroke without a wheel are VectorCraft's own rules. On Linux under X11 and XWayland the app reads the wheel from XInput2's `Abs Wheel` valuator, and on macOS from AppKit's `tangentialPressure`; Windows pointer messages have no field for it, and the web build does not read it yet. `path.freehand` points take it seventh and `pointer_gesture` events take `wheel`, and `.ai` brush definitions read and write it as variation code 3. Evidence: `tests::the_stylus_wheel_varies_sizes_and_widths` (vectorcraft-brush), `tests_brushsym::freehand_points_record_the_stylus_wheel` (vectorcraft-engine), `more_brush_settings_are_read_back` and `a_calligraphic_brushs_pen_channels_come_in_by_their_codes` (vectorcraft-eps), `tablet::tests::an_airbrush_wheel_goes_into_the_feed` and `mac_tablet::tests::an_airbrush_wheel_goes_into_the_feed` (vectorcraft).

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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add the required feature revision entry.

This adds Stylus Wheel support to the parity assessment, but the Feature revisions table at Line 55 has no corresponding entry. Add a dated entry that records the supported platforms, remaining limits, and whether scores and estimates changed.

As per coding guidelines: “Update each touched doc's status line and revision history.”

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Add a dated entry to the Feature revisions table for Airbrush stylus wheel support, recording the supported platforms, remaining limitations, and whether scores or estimates changed; leave unrelated documentation status lines unchanged.

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The status line, revision history and area rows of docs/target-app-parity.md are left to the maintainers, so this pull request changed only its evidence line.

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Eraser: Stylus Wheel follows the pen's finger wheel
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path.eraseRegion now lists stylusWheel among the Angle, Roundness and Size
variation modes in its error message, params text and docs/mcp.md, and its
points take the wheel seventh, as path.freehand does. The engine test that
refused stylusWheel as a mode now checks that an Eraser value on Stylus
Wheel follows the recorded wheel and stays at the value without one, and
a tools test checks the same for the Eraser's tip outline and the points
its release sends.
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