fixed up default text that uses a template to process an initial carriage return properly. fixed text with inherited templates to be able to show fields with a default dashField value from template that can be overidden on instance.

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
index 4eb946939..9500b918a 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import { SelectionManager } from '../../../util/SelectionManager';
 import { freeformScrollMode } from '../../../util/SettingsManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../../util/SnappingManager';
 import { Transform } from '../../../util/Transform';
-import { undoBatch, UndoManager } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
+import { undoable, undoBatch, UndoManager } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
 import { Timeline } from '../../animationtimeline/Timeline';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../../ContextMenu';
 import { GestureOverlay } from '../../GestureOverlay';
@@ -1146,23 +1146,29 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
 
     isContentActive = () => this._props.isContentActive();
 
-    @undoBatch
+    /**
+     * Create a new text note of the same style as the one being typed into.
+     * If the text doc is be part of a larger templated doc, the new Doc will be a copy of the templated Doc
+     *
+     * @param fieldProps render props for the text doc being typed into
+     * @param below whether to place the new text Doc below or to the right of the one being typed into.
+     * @returns whether the new text doc was created and added successfully
+     */
+    createTextDocCopy = undoable((fieldProps: FieldViewProps, below: boolean) => {
+        const textDoc = DocCast(fieldProps.Document.rootDocument, fieldProps.Document);
+        const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(textDoc, true);
+        newDoc[DocData][Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc, fieldProps.LayoutTemplateString)] = undefined; // the copy should not copy the text contents of it source, just the render style
+        newDoc.x = NumCast(textDoc.x) + (below ? 0 : NumCast(textDoc._width) + 10);
+        newDoc.y = NumCast(textDoc.y) + (below ? NumCast(textDoc._height) + 10 : 0);
+        FormattedTextBox.SetSelectOnLoad(newDoc);
+        FormattedTextBox.DontSelectInitialText = true;
+        return this.addDocument?.(newDoc);
+    }, 'copied text note');
+
     onKeyDown = (e: React.KeyboardEvent, fieldProps: FieldViewProps) => {
         if ((e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey || e.altKey || fieldProps.Document._createDocOnCR) && ['Tab', 'Enter'].includes(e.key)) {
             e.stopPropagation?.();
-            const below = !e.altKey && e.key !== 'Tab';
-            const layout_fieldKey = StrCast(fieldProps.fieldKey);
-            const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(fieldProps.Document, true);
-            const dataField = fieldProps.Document[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc)];
-            newDoc[DocData][Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc)] = dataField === undefined || Cast(dataField, listSpec(Doc), null)?.length !== undefined ? new List<Doc>([]) : undefined;
-            if (below) newDoc.y = NumCast(fieldProps.Document.y) + NumCast(fieldProps.Document._height) + 10;
-            else newDoc.x = NumCast(fieldProps.Document.x) + NumCast(fieldProps.Document._width) + 10;
-            if (layout_fieldKey !== 'layout' && fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey] instanceof Doc) {
-                newDoc[layout_fieldKey] = fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey];
-            }
-            newDoc[DocData].text = undefined;
-            FormattedTextBox.SetSelectOnLoad(newDoc);
-            return this.addDocument?.(newDoc);
+            return this.createTextDocCopy(fieldProps, !e.altKey && e.key !== 'Tab');
         }
     };
     @computed get childPointerEvents() {
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
index e22b83307..b913e05ad 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ export class MarqueeView extends ObservableReactComponent<SubCollectionViewProps
         } else if (!e.ctrlKey && !e.metaKey && SelectionManager.Views.length < 2) {
             FormattedTextBox.SelectOnLoadChar = Doc.UserDoc().defaultTextLayout && !this._props.childLayoutString ? e.key : '';
             FormattedTextBox.LiveTextUndo = UndoManager.StartBatch('type new note');
-            this._props.addLiveTextDocument(DocUtils.GetNewTextDoc('-typed text-', x, y, 200, 100, this._props.xPadding === 0));
+            this._props.addLiveTextDocument(DocUtils.GetNewTextDoc('-typed text-', x, y, 200, 100));
             e.stopPropagation();
         }
     };