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Fixes #2006.

While a file panel is in use, the menu bar is swapped for a small one. It has an Edit menu (Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All, muda's predefined items with the usual shortcuts) and an application menu with Hide, Hide Others and Show All. Quit is left out until the panel closes. The usual menu bar returns when the panel closes, and also if the code showing the panel panics. Outside the panels, DeckCraft's own text boxes still get these keys from egui.

with_panel_menu wraps the blocking pick_file and save_file calls in main.rs. These panels are app-modal, so the swap lasts for the duration of the call.

New dependency: muda 0.21 with default features off (Apache-2.0 OR MIT). objc2 and objc2-app-kit (Zlib OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) are now direct dependencies. Both were already in the build. muda makes the AppKit calls, so the code needs no unsafe.

#1958 turns these panels into sheets. If it lands first, I'll rebase and swap the menu bar when the sheet opens and closes, as storytold/wordcraft#6177 does.

Tests:

  • New mac_panel_menu_appkit test (macOS, harness = false; it answers nextest's --list request, so nextest can list it). It checks that ⌘X, ⌘C, ⌘V, ⌘A and ⌘H send cut:, copy:, paste:, selectAll: and hide:, that there is no Quit, and that the usual menu bar is restored afterwards, including after a panel that panics. It fails without the Drop impl, without the Paste item and without the Hide item.
  • By hand on macOS 27.3 (M1): in the Open panel, ⌘⇧G then ⌘V pastes the path with this branch. It does nothing with the 0.17.0 release.
  • Every step of cargo xtask ci, run locally on macOS 27.3 with cargo-nextest 0.9.150 and cargo-deny 0.20.2, passes except start_screen_opens_the_palette_and_preferences, which fails the same way on main on this machine. Windows and Linux: left to CI.

PRs with the same fix in the other apps: storytold/wordcraft#6177, storytold/gridcraft#3683, storytold/pdfcraft#6817.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • On macOS, file open and save dialogs display a menu with standard Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All commands and their keyboard shortcuts, plus Hide, Hide Others, and Show All.
    • The app’s usual menu returns when a dialog closes, including if the dialog action encounters an error. File filters and selected-path handling remain unchanged.

…ls (storytold#2006)

AppKit routes these shortcuts through the menu bar, so with no Edit menu
item for them the Go to Folder and file name boxes ignored them. While a
file panel is showing, a small menu bar with a standard Edit menu stands
in, and the usual one comes back when the panel closes.
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On macOS, open and save dialogs run with a temporary menu containing Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All shortcuts. The previous menu is restored after the dialog callback. On other platforms, the callback runs directly.

Changes: macOS file dialog menu

Layer / File(s) Summary
Menu contents and state
apps/deckcraft/Cargo.toml, apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs
macOS dependencies support AppKit menu construction. PanelMenu stores the temporary menu and previous menu bar. The temporary menu contains Hide, Hide Others, Show All, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All.
Dialog lifecycle and verification
apps/deckcraft/src/main.rs, apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs, apps/deckcraft/tests/mac_panel_menu_appkit.rs, apps/deckcraft/Cargo.toml
Open and save callbacks use with_panel_menu on macOS and run directly on other platforms. The temporary menu is installed while the callback runs, then the previous menu is restored. The AppKit test checks the menu actions and restoration after normal completion and panic.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Main
  participant with_panel_menu
  participant PanelMenu
  participant AppKit
  participant FilePicker
  Main->>with_panel_menu: Run open or save callback
  with_panel_menu->>PanelMenu: Call while_open
  PanelMenu->>AppKit: Install temporary menu
  with_panel_menu->>FilePicker: Run file-panel callback
  FilePicker-->>with_panel_menu: Return callback result
  PanelMenu->>AppKit: Restore previous menu
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Possibly related issues

  • storytold/deckcraft#584: This PR adds Edit commands to a temporary menu while file panels are open. It does not add the persistent native menu hierarchy requested by the issue.

Suggested reviewers: dylanmtaylor

Merge Risk: Low · up to f12a3

The temporary macOS panel menu looks sound. The only gap is a test that does not verify the shortcut modifier keys, so a wrong modifier could slip through later. This is a small follow-up and does not block merging.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: enabling Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All in macOS Open and Save panels.
Linked Issues check Passed [#2006] requires standard macOS edit shortcuts in the Open panel, including ⌘V for Go to Folder. main.rs wraps the Open and Save file-panel calls with panel_menu::while_open. panel_menu.rs insta…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The Save-panel integration supports the same file-panel text editing requirement. The muda and AppKit dependencies support the implementation. The macOS AppKit test verifies the required behavior an…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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[#2006] requires standard macOS edit shortcuts in the Open panel, including ⌘V for Go to Folder. main.rs wraps the Open and Save file-panel calls with panel_menu::while_open. panel_menu.rs installs Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All items with the standard muda actions and restores the prior menu on normal return or panic. mac_panel_menu_appkit verifies the four selectors and menu restoration.

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The Save-panel integration supports the same file-panel text editing requirement. The muda and AppKit dependencies support the implementation. The macOS AppKit test verifies the required behavior and cleanup. No unrelated change is shown in the supplied whole-PR summary.

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AI-generated review (Opus). Not a maintainer decision.

No blocking problems found (not certain).

While a file panel is open on macOS, a small menu bar with an Edit menu and Hide items replaces the usual one. A Drop guard puts the usual menu bar back on every exit path.

  • apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:58-72 builds the Edit menu (Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All) second, after an application menu with Hide, Hide Others and Show All. There is no Quit while a panel is up.
  • apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:44-55: the Drop impl on PanelMenu restores the earlier menu bar when the panel returns or the closure panics.
  • apps/deckcraft/src/main.rs:143 and apps/deckcraft/src/main.rs:146 wrap both blocking rfd panels in the desktop app. On other platforms, with_panel_menu (main.rs:112-117) just calls the closure.
  • apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:61: PredefinedMenuItem::hide(None) uses the default item title. Passing a title such as "Hide DeckCraft" would match the usual application menu.
  • The test for the shortcuts could also check each item's modifier mask, so that a hide: item bound to a different modifier combination fails.

Claims checked:

  • verified: While an Open or Save panel is showing, an Edit menu with Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All (muda predefined items) is the menu bar. (apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:62-70 appends cut, copy, paste and select_all to an Edit submenu. apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:31-34 installs it with init_for_nsa…
  • verified: The application menu has Hide, Hide Others and Show All, and Quit is left out until the panel closes. (apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:60-61 builds the app submenu with only hide, hide_others and show_all. No quit item is added anywhere in edit_menu (apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:58-72).)
  • verified: The usual menu bar returns when the panel closes, and also if the code showing the panel panics. (apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:51-55: while_open keeps a PanelMenu local, and it is dropped on return or unwind. apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:44-48: Drop calls sync(false). apps/deckcraft/src/pan…
  • verified: Outside the panels, DeckCraft's text boxes still get these keys from egui; on other platforms nothing changes. (apps/deckcraft/src/main.rs:112-117: the swap happens only inside with_panel_menu, and only on macOS. Otherwise pick() is called directly.)
  • verified: No unsafe code; muda makes the AppKit calls; muda 0.21 with default features off, and objc2 and objc2-app-kit as direct macOS dependencies. (apps/deckcraft/src/panel_menu.rs:1-72 has no unsafe and uses safe objc2 and muda APIs. apps/deckcraft/Cargo.toml:36 and apps/deckcraft/Cargo.toml:42-45 add mu…

Reviewed at f12a350.

Recommendation: merge, after a maintainer's decision.

- apps/deckcraft/src/main.rs
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Pushed the small fixes from review: apps/deckcraft/src/main.rs.

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PanelMenu puts the usual menu bar back on drop, and the AppKit test
checks it after a panel that panics. Doc comments for the review.
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Thanks. 03bcd83 puts the usual menu bar back on drop, with a test for a panel that panics (it fails without the fix), and the description now lists objc2 and objc2-app-kit.

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Nitpick comments: 1

apps/deckcraft/tests/mac_panel_menu_appkit.rs: 1

9-12: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Test shortcut delivery to a first responder.

The test checks menu metadata, but not action delivery. A wrong item target can leave shortcuts nonfunctional while the test passes. Dispatch the four Command-key events to a focused responder and assert that it receives each action.

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Review comment at @apps/deckcraft/tests/mac_panel_menu_appkit.rs around lines 9
- 12:
Extend assert_panel_shortcuts to verify action delivery, not just menu metadata:
dispatch the four Command-key events to a focused responder and assert it
receives the matching edit action. Use the existing app and menu context, and
avoid assuming responder or event-dispatch APIs not established by the
surrounding test code.

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Review comments at @apps/deckcraft/tests/mac_panel_menu_appkit.rs:
- Around line 9-12: Extend assert_panel_shortcuts to verify action delivery, not
just menu metadata: dispatch the four Command-key events to a focused responder
and assert it receives the matching edit action. Use the existing app and menu
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nextest asks a harness = false test binary for its tests before running
them; the test ran instead and nextest refused the output on macOS.
⌘H and ⌥⌘H kept working while a file panel is open; Quit comes back
with the usual menu bar.
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Updated after another review. The panel's application menu has Hide, Hide Others and Show All, with no Quit while a panel is up. The AppKit test now answers nextest's --list, which cargo xtask ci needs on macOS. The description lists what ran.

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Nitpick comments: 1

apps/deckcraft/tests/mac_panel_menu_appkit.rs: 1

21-21: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Check the shortcut modifier masks.

The assertion accepts a hide: item bound to ⌥⌘H, even though ⌘H would not work. Check keyEquivalentModifierMask for each shortcut as well as the key and action. (developer.apple.com)

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Review comment at @apps/deckcraft/tests/mac_panel_menu_appkit.rs at line 21:
Update the shortcut assertion in the test loop over key/action pairs to verify each menu item’s keyEquivalentModifierMask as well as its key and action. Require ⌘H for the hide: item so ⌥⌘H does not pass.

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Review comments at @apps/deckcraft/tests/mac_panel_menu_appkit.rs:
- Line 21: Update the shortcut assertion in the test loop over key/action pairs
to verify each menu item’s keyEquivalentModifierMask as well as its key and
action. Require ⌘H for the hide: item so ⌥⌘H does not pass.

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