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VenusianPHP/surface v0.10.5 (venusian/surface 0.10.5 on Packagist, single commit "(0.10.5) - expansion") adds TKTree / TreeNode, canvas pointer and wheel mail, focus and window-key mail, menu accelerators and enabled state, modal child windows with close confirmation and button roles, and dialog/clipboard/desktop services. The docs didn't cover any of it yet.

  • toolkit-primitives: TreeNode in contracts, TKTree leaf row and tree rules, applyRole on TKButton, canvas focus and pointer sections
  • view-mail: CanvasPressed / CanvasDragged / CanvasReleased / CanvasWheeled, FocusGained / FocusLost, NodeSelected / NodeActivated / NodeExpanded rows
  • window-mail: WindowKeyPressed, Services\AlertAnswered, Services\FilesChosen rows
  • menu-profiles: keys and enabled node keys, hotkey limits, unique ids, new Accelerators and Enabled state sections, context-menu key rules
  • windows: new ToolkitWindow methods, key precedence, close confirmation (WindowCloseRequested), child windows, button roles, driver/manager parent, services, and setItemEnabled / isItemEnabled
  • changelog: entries for 2026-10-18 through 2026-10-23

Sources: the release's own .okf notes at v0.10.5 and the diff v0.10.2...v0.10.5. The .okf notes don't mention a few code changes, so I added them from the code: ToolkitWindowManager::open()'s parent, setItemEnabled / isItemEnabled on the window, driver and manager lines.

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  • Documentation
    • Expanded API guidance for menu profiles, including accelerator enablement, profile identifiers, edit-role restrictions, and context-menu rules.
    • Added descriptions of canvas pointer and wheel events, focus changes, and user-driven tree selection, activation, and expansion.
    • Clarified window keyboard handling, item enablement, focus, dialog and file-selection responses, and parent-child modal behavior.
    • Updated the toolkit and architecture guides with canvas, tree, and window behavior, and added changelog entries for recent toolkit features.

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This pull request updates toolkit API and architecture documentation. It describes menu accelerators and enabled state, tree and canvas events and behavior, and window key handling, modal behavior, and services. It also adds changelog entries for these features in release v0.10.5.

Changes: Toolkit Documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Menu accelerators and enabled state
surface/api/menu-profiles.md
Documents accelerator settings, parsing and priority, enabled-state APIs and behavior, profile lookup, and restrictions on menu nodes.
Tree, canvas, and focus behavior
surface/api/view-mail.md, surface/architecture/toolkit-primitives.md, surface/changelog.md
Documents tree selection, activation, and expansion mail; canvas pointer and focus behavior; tree selection behavior; and related primitive hooks. The changelog adds entries for tree, canvas, and focus changes.
Window, key, and service APIs
surface/api/window-mail.md, surface/architecture/windows.md, surface/changelog.md
Documents window key and dialog response mail, enabled-item and focus methods, key handling, modal parent-child behavior, and dialog, clipboard, and desktop services. The changelog adds entries for these APIs and menu changes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 696d8

The PR is broadly mergeable, but the documented API behavior and changelog structure should be corrected before release.

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Review comments at @surface/api/menu-profiles.md:
- Line 28: Update the final sentence in the accelerator documentation to limit
the key-before-focused-widget behavior to enabled non-edit accelerators. Clarify
that AppKit edit roles use standard key equivalents, while GTK and Qt use the
focused widget’s action without an accelerator.

Review comments at @surface/api/view-mail.md:
- Line 15: Update the CanvasReleased documentation to state that no release mail
is sent when the press is dropped by watchPointer(false), canvas disablement or
removal, or window close. Preserve the existing release behavior for other
press-ending cases.

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- Line 14: Clarify the `WindowKeyPressed` description to state that the event is
posted only when the focused native control and the accelerator, default/cancel
button, and Tab handling do not handle the key. Preserve the existing key and
character descriptions.

Review comments at @surface/architecture/toolkit-primitives.md:
- Line 122: Update the `setFocusable()` contract so it explicitly states that
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- Line 17: Add the missing `WindowCloseRequested` contract to the window-mail
schema, including its fields, signal name, and the condition under which
`confirmClose()` posts it; alternatively, make the separate mail contract
explicit. Keep the documented close-veto behavior consistent with the existing
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## Accelerators

`Accelerator::parse('Primary+Shift+F5')`: modifier tokens, then one key token, `+` between, any case.[^accelerator] Modifiers: `Primary` (Command on macOS, Control elsewhere), `Ctrl`, `Alt` (Option on macOS), `Shift`, `Meta` (Command on macOS, Super elsewhere); `command()` / `control()` / `super()` resolve them per platform. Keys: letters, digits, punctuation (`MINUS` … `SLASH`), `F1`-`F12`, arrows, `HOME`, `END`, `PAGE_UP`, `PAGE_DOWN`, `SPACE`, `ENTER`, `TAB`, `ESCAPE`, `BACKSPACE`, `DELETE`; by `Key` case name or by the character typed without Shift (`]` = `RIGHT_BRACKET`). Other keys throw (`INSERT`: AppKit cannot choose an item from the Help key a Mac reads for Insert). A key other than `F1`-`F12` needs `Primary`, `Ctrl`, `Alt` or `Meta`. Two items with the same accelerator on macOS or elsewhere throw; each edit role holds its standard one (`Primary+Z`, `Primary+Shift+Z`, `Primary+X`, `Primary+C`, `Primary+V`, `Primary+A`). An enabled accelerator gets its key before the focused widget, on all toolkits.

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Exclude edit roles from the general accelerator rule.

GTK and Qt edit roles use the focused widget's action and have no accelerator. AppKit edit roles use the standard key equivalents. Update the final sentence so it applies only to non-edit accelerators.

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-... An enabled accelerator gets its key before the focused widget, on all toolkits.
+... Non-edit enabled accelerators get their key before the focused widget on all toolkits. Edit roles use toolkit-specific behavior: AppKit uses standard key equivalents; GTK and Qt use the focused widget's action without an accelerator.
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Review comment at @surface/api/menu-profiles.md at line 28:
Update the final sentence in the accelerator documentation to limit the
key-before-focused-widget behavior to enabled non-edit accelerators. Clarify
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| `CanvasClicked` | x, y (where the press landed, points from the canvas's top-left) | `view.clicked.<window>.<path>` | canvas: primary press + release on it, not moved past the drag distance (a tap too); not Ctrl-click on macOS, not a hold past the long-press time on Linux (right clicks); none when it or an ancestor is disabled |
| `CanvasPressed` | x, y, `MouseButton` button, int clicks, `Modifiers` modifiers | `view.pressed.<window>.<path>` | canvas after `watchPointer()`: a button down on it, which then owns the press (other buttons post nothing until it ends); clicks counts same-button presses within the toolkit's double-click time and distance, so a triple click is 3 |
| `CanvasDragged` | x, y, button, modifiers | `view.dragged.<window>.<path>` | the owning button held and the point changed; keeps posting outside the canvas and the window (implicit capture), x / y then negative or past its size |
| `CanvasReleased` | x, y, button, modifiers | `view.released.<window>.<path>` | exactly one per `CanvasPressed`: the owning button's release, or at once at the last point posted when the toolkit ends the press (context menu, GTK grab broken, touch cancelled) |

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the code-cancellation exception for CanvasReleased.

surface/architecture/toolkit-primitives.md, Line 127 states that watchPointer(false), disabling or removing the canvas, and window close drop the press without mail. Therefore, “exactly one per CanvasPressed” is not true for those cases. Add this exception so consumers do not wait for a release that never arrives.

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Update the CanvasReleased documentation to state that no release mail is sent
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| `WindowClosed` | window | `window.closed.<window>` | window closed (button or `close()`), once |
| `WindowFocused` | window | `window.focused.<window>` | window became active / key |
| `WindowRightClicked` | window, x, y | `window.right-clicked.<window>` | right click on the window's bare content (no primitive under it); x, y in the content area |
| `WindowKeyPressed` | window, `Key` key, character, `Modifiers` modifiers, repeat | `window.key.<window>` | a key press no focused native, menu accelerator, default/cancel button or Tab move took; key is physical, character the layout's text (`''` for none) |

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify when WindowKeyPressed is posted.

Line 14 contains “a key press no focused native,” which is not grammatical and does not state that the focused native control failed to handle the key. Describe the event as posting only after the accelerator, default/cancel, Tab, and focused-native checks do not handle the key.

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Review comment at @surface/api/window-mail.md at line 14:
Clarify the `WindowKeyPressed` description to state that the event is posted
only when the focused native control and the accelerator, default/cancel button,
and Tab handling do not handle the key. Preserve the existing key and character
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* Driver from the app's `FramebufferManager` (`WindowsServiceProvider` sets `TKCanvas::resolveFramebuffersUsing()`); with none set, the canvas builds `native` / `extended` itself.
* A toolkit's canvas implements `nativeScale()` + `applyPixels()` + `applyAddress()`; the toolkit copies what it needs before returning.

Focus: every primitive has `focus()` (throws `WindowException` when removed, hidden or disabled itself or through a container, or when the native declines; the native is not asked in those cases) and `hasFocus()`, through the abstract hooks `applyFocus(): bool` and `nativeHasFocus()`; the driver focuses the native's focus target (the inner view of a scroll-wrapped native). A canvas takes no focus until `setFocusable(bool $on = true, bool $takesTab = false)`; `takesTab` is false whenever focusable is, and a change reaches the driver's `applyFocusable($on, $takesTab)` once. `FocusGained` / `FocusLost` post only for the user's focus changes.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Complete the takesTab condition.

The sentence ends at “whenever focusable is”. State the missing condition explicitly, for example: “takesTab is false whenever focusable is false.” The current wording leaves the setFocusable() contract ambiguous.

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Update the `setFocusable()` contract so it explicitly states that `takesTab` is
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* Close: notify-after, no veto. User close button and `close()` take one path: `WindowClosed` once, driver forgets the name, later calls throw `WindowException` ("closed").
* Key precedence while the window is key: a menu accelerator, then the Return/Esc of a default or cancel button, then Tab/Shift-Tab moving focus (unless a focused canvas takes Tab), then the focused native. A key that passes them all posts `WindowKeyPressed`.
* Close: user close button and `close()` take one path: `WindowClosed` once, driver forgets the name, later calls throw `WindowException` ("closed"). After `confirmClose()`, the user's close posts `WindowCloseRequested` and the window stays open; `close()` always closes.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add WindowCloseRequested to the window-mail schema.

Line 17 documents this mail for confirmClose(), but surface/api/window-mail.md has no schema row for it. Add its fields, signal name, and posting condition, or make the separate mail contract explicit. Otherwise users cannot discover the mail emitted by the close-veto API.

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Add the missing `WindowCloseRequested` contract to the window-mail schema,
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What changed in this package, newest first.

### 2026-10-23

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use level-two headings for the added changelog dates.

The added date headings use ### directly under # Changelog. Change them to ##. This follows the documentation rule and resolves the markdownlint MD001 warning reported on Line 5.

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Change the added date headings in the changelog from level-three to level-two
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