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Fix new-capture auto-hide, library capture bar, step delete, and click-capture timing

- New Capture sessions now start paused; the window only tucks away once
  the user clicks "Start recording" in the capture bar instead of hiding
  ~1.2s after starting.
- The capture status bar is shown only in the editor view, not over the
  library.
- Fix openModal/confirmDialog resolving as cancelled when an action button
  is clicked, which made the step "Delete" button (and other modal actions)
  silently no-op.
- Click-triggered captures now use the click-time cursor position for the
  marker and arm the capture cache as soon as recording starts, so the
  first click is captured instantly and accurately placed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-06-11 09:21:19 -05:00

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Changelog

All notable user-visible changes are recorded here. The format follows Keep-a-Changelog conventions; versions follow semver.

[0.1.0] - 2026-06-10

Initial release.

Added

Welcome screen on launch: app title with three actions — New Capture (creates a guide, opens the editor, and starts a capture session), Existing Workspace (guide library), and Settings. The brand button returns to the welcome screen from any view.
Capture menu in the editor topbar: full screen / window / region / 3-second delay, paste image as step, import images, and capture session start/finish — capture no longer requires the global hotkey.
Continuous capture sessions: steps are grabbed on every OS click where the platform supports it (xinput on X11, PowerShell on Windows), with interval auto-capture (3/5/10 s) as the always-works fallback when click detection or global hotkeys are unavailable (e.g. WSLg/Wayland). The REC bar shows the live count and trigger, with Shoot / Auto / Pause / Finish controls.
Recording sessions tuck the window away once and control everything from a red tray icon (capture now / pause / open / finish) instead of hiding the window for every shot — the app stays reachable mid-session, opening it auto-pauses capture, and per-shot latency drops because the hide-repaint wait is gone. Automatic captures also stand down whenever the cursor is over a visible StepForge window.
New captures and newly added steps are now selected in the editor.
The app hides its own window during capture so screenshots show your work, not StepForge; hotkey captures restore the window without stealing focus.
Blocks panel: add and edit informational text blocks, code blocks, and tables directly on a step.
Focused-view zoom and pan sliders.
Guide-level placeholders editor (More ▾ → Guide placeholders).
Backups & snapshots dialog with one-click undoable restore.
Export dialog: editable per-format options, save-as-template, and a template manager (rename / duplicate / delete / share as .sfglt); Preview now opens the generated file in the default viewer.
Apply an annotation's style to all annotations of the same type in the step or the whole guide.
Keyboard shortcuts: tool keys (S R O L A T G N B H M U C), PageUp/ PageDown step navigation, Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0 zoom, annotation copy/paste (Ctrl+C/V), Ctrl+Delete deletes the step, Shift+arrows fast-nudge — plus a shortcuts reference dialog.

Fixed

Renderer scripts no longer collide in the shared global scope (the app previously failed to boot with a blank window).
Focused-view toggle persists correctly (step.focusedView.enabled).
Annotation style edits no longer steal input focus on each keystroke.
Step list stays in sync after saves and undo/redo.
Escape deselects the active annotation instead of deleting it.
Modal dialogs (confirm/prompt/etc.) no longer resolve as cancelled when an action button is clicked — openModal's teardown was firing the dialog's default-cancel callback before the button's own resolution could win. This was most visible as the step "Delete" button silently doing nothing.
New Capture no longer hides the app window ~1.2s after starting; a session now starts paused and the window only tucks away once the user presses "Start recording" in the capture bar, so the app doesn't vanish out from under you.
The capture status bar (REC count / Shoot / Auto / Pause / Finish) is now shown only in the editor view; it no longer appears over the library when a session is still running in the background.
Click-triggered captures now grab the cursor position at the instant of the click (instead of from the cache's last refresh, up to ~75ms earlier) and use it for the click-marker placement, and the click-capture cache is armed as soon as recording starts so the very first click is captured instantly.

Added (initial feature set)

Guide library with folders, favorites, title + full-text search, and a quick-actions palette.
Capture engine: full-screen / active-window / region capture, delay, pause/resume, global hotkeys, click markers, clipboard paste, image import.
Three-pane editor: step tree with substeps, statuses, hidden/skipped steps, focused view, autosave, undo/redo.
Annotation canvas: rect, oval, line, arrow, text, tooltip, numbered marker, blur, highlight, magnify, crop; normalized JSON scene graph.
Rich text descriptions, informational text blocks, code blocks, tables, step links, and placeholders (global / guide / system scope).
Single-file .sfgz share archives, linked guides with lock files, snapshot backups and restore.
Exporters: JSON, Markdown, Simple HTML, Rich HTML, PDF, animated GIF, image bundle, DOCX, PPTX; per-format templates shareable as .sfglt.
System/light/dark theming, keyboard shortcuts, settings dialog.
Offline guarantee: zero network code paths.