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Thank you very much for all this feedback! I really appreciate your consideration.

For your note on different states for screens. Can you elaborate or give an example? I'm quite interested in this mode that you're describing.

The ellipse issue sounds like snapping getting in the way. It's on my list to come up with a better heuristic of when to apply snapping or not. One example of an idea I have here is to incorporate some hysteresis effect - essentially examining the local history of mouse movements when deciding to apply snapping or not. Right now each mouse movement is treated independently.

Also, were you in dark mode? It's definitely not intended that the whole screen should change color - a popup should dim the content behind. The whole screen changing color sounds like a bug and I'll investigate.

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>For your note on different states for screens. Can you elaborate or give an example? I'm quite interested in this mode that you're describing.

I meant the very obvious feature (you might already have it) of objects with properties and a unique id, then a state that indexes snapshots of those objects with different properties. With the ability to diff between states by id of the object. So State1:[Square{id:0, x:0, y:0}], State2:[Square{id:0, x:screen.width, y: screen.width}], where going from state1 to state2 would tween the square from top-left to bottom-right.

I am assuming you already have something like that (you already have the objects, the properties, and some states like undo/redo) and it's about exposing the ui around it with labeled states at the user-level.

> Also, were you in dark mode? It's definitely not intended that the whole screen should change color - a popup should dim the content behind. The whole screen changing color sounds like a bug and I'll investigate.

That's what it was! I tried with light mode in firefox and it worked much better.

Ah, ok - thank you for elaborating on that. I don't actually have that type of interactivity at the moment, though you're right in saying all the information is there in order to make it happen. I also like your idea of changing between the states via some collapsible menu. In theory all of this could be achieved just by building on what's already here. Do you mind sharing what sorts of things you might use this for?

Glad to hear dark mode was the other issue :-). I'll investigate further, it's probably just a matter of a flag not being propagated properly during the scene change.

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