DRAW v0.30.0

DRAW v0.30.0

Release date: 2026-04-05

SMART GUIDES !

New Features

• Smart Guides — Alignment guide lines appear when moving layers, snapping to canvas edges, centers, and other layer boundaries. Toggle enable with Ctrl+Shift+;, toggle snap with Ctrl+;. Guide colors and opacity are fully themeable.
• Edit Bar additions — Smart Guides enable/snap toggle buttons, Pixel Perfect toggle, and Flip Canvas H/V buttons added to the edit bar icon strip.
• Drawer Load Images — New "Load Images" context menu option to batch-import image files into consecutive drawer slots via multi-select file dialog.
• Fill Adjustment rotation — Rotation handle added to the Fill Adjustment overlay (F8), enabling rotation of tiled fill patterns alongside existing offset and scale controls.

Improvements

• macOS tap-to-click — Fixed tap-to-click on trackpads for Settings dialog, Color Picker, and Message Box dialogs (SDL2 trackpad taps that press+release within a single drain cycle are now captured correctly).
• Advanced Bar defaults to LEFT dock — The advanced bar now docks to the left side by default instead of right.
• Color Loupe defaults — Loupe zoom reduced from 8x to 3x, font size reduced from 16 to 8 for a more practical default experience.
• Pixel Art Analyzer — Confidence threshold now persisted in DRW v23 files; mouse-clickable analysis buttons; improved checkbox styling.
• Layout menu — All 10 layout items (including Character Map and Advanced Bar docking) are now fully accessible.
• GJ-PSD Patterns — Two new pattern drawer sets added.

Bug Fixes

• Pixel Art Analyzer zoom — Zoom/pan in the analyzer now shows the transparency checkerboard instead of a solid gray background.
• Layout submenu hover — Fixed hover loop that only checked 8 of 10 items, making the bottom 2 items (Character Map and Advanced Bar docking) unselectable.

Internal / Refactoring

• DRW file format v23 — Added grid configuration persistence (grid/pixel-grid colors, opacity, angle, character grid dimensions). Older DRAW versions may not read v23 files.
• File dialog wrappers — Refactored to DRAW-specific GJ-DIALOG-SCALE.BM implementations with toolbar scale injection.
• Instruction files updated — draw-chrome-geometry, draw-fileformat, draw-project, draw-rendering, and draw-ui instruction files updated for v0.30.0 changes.

What's Changed

• Smart guides by @grymmjack in #56

Full Changelog: v0.29.0...v0.30.0