Editor: Space plays after you click a button, select or slider by mrbeandev · Pull Request #152 · ronak-create/FableCut

mrbeandev · 2026-11-04T04:48:42Z

What does this PR do?

After you click a button, checkbox, slider or dropdown in the editor, Space plays the timeline again. It used to press that control a second time.

To reproduce on main: click Snap in the timeline toolbar, then press Space. Snap toggles back and the timeline doesn't play. The same happens after picking a frame rate in the dropdown (Space reopens it), and ←/→ nudge the last slider you touched instead of stepping the playhead.

The cause: a native control keeps keyboard focus after a click. The editor's shortcut handler skips the shortcut while a typing field has focus (isTypingTarget), which counts <select>. For a button, the browser presses the focused control on Space before the shortcut does anything useful.

How

focus.js is a new zero-dependency module (UMD, the same shape as mp4-demux.js), loaded before app.js.

A control used with the mouse gives focus back to the page once the click or slider drag is over. This runs after the control's own click handler, so if that handler moves focus somewhere (into a popover's text field, say), it is left there.
The editor's Space handler asks FableCutFocus.spaceShouldPlay(el) before the plain Space shortcut. It returns true for a click control (button, select, checkbox, slider, link, role=tab|button) that got focus from the pointer and sits outside a dialog or popover.
Nothing changes inside .overlay, .ctx-menu, .style-menu or [role=dialog|menu|listbox]. A control reached with Tab keeps its focus and Space presses it, so keyboard users lose nothing. Text fields aren't touched.

I track how a control got focus with focusin and the last input (pointer or key) instead of using :focus-visible. Chrome turns :focus-visible on for a focused <select> as soon as any key is pressed, so it can't tell a clicked select from a tabbed one.

app.js gets one 8-line block in the global Space handler. index.html loads focus.js, and docs/demo/sync.js copies it to the playground.

Type of change

Bug fix

How was it verified?

npm test: 541 pass. Two tests fail on this branch and on main alike, so they aren't caused by this change: rest-api "/media/ … never leaves media/" (the %2e%2e case) and mcp-protocol "every tools/call answer…" (a timeout on this machine).
Added test/focus.test.js: which elements count as click controls, Space plays outside dialogs but not inside them or after Tab, release() leaves dialogs and text fields alone, and the Space handler and index.html are wired in the right order.
In the editor (Chrome): clicked Snap, then Space played and Snap stayed as set. Picked a frame rate, then Space played. A control focused with the keyboard still opens or presses on Space. Undo still works after clicking an Inspector switch.
Export: not affected (UI only).

Checklist

No new runtime dependencies added
A new shared module is in index.html and docs/demo/sync.js
node docs/docs/build.js and node docs/demo/sync.js rerun
CHANGELOG.md entry under Unreleased (Fixed)
No new shortcuts (the shortcuts dialog is unchanged)

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Bug Fixes
- After mouse interaction with buttons, checkboxes, sliders, or dropdowns, focus returns to the editor where appropriate, allowing Space to control playback and arrow keys to move the playhead.
- Space on an eligible mouse-focused control plays or pauses the timeline rather than triggering the control’s usual action. Controls that retain focus keep their normal Space behavior.
- Dialogs, popovers, and controls focused with Tab retain their existing keyboard behavior. Holding Space no longer toggles playback repeatedly.

A clicked control kept keyboard focus, so Space pressed it again (Snap toggled back, a select reopened) instead of playing the timeline, and ←/→ nudged the last slider instead of stepping the playhead. focus.js (new, UMD like mp4-demux.js) gives focus back to the page once a mouse click or drag on a control is over, and the editor's Space handler plays when the focused control got its focus from the mouse. Dialogs, popovers and controls reached with Tab keep their normal keyboard behaviour. Text fields are not touched.

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Walkthrough

The change adds focus management for editor controls. Eligible Space presses now release control focus and toggle timeline playback. Dialogs, popovers, and controls reached by keyboard retain their existing Space behavior.

Changes: Control Focus and Space Playback

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Focus rules and API `focus.js`, `docs/demo/focus.js`, `test/focus.test.js`	The focus modules identify click controls and keyboard scopes, track keyboard-originated focus, and provide helpers to decide whether Space should play and whether focus can be released. Tests cover control detection, playback decisions, and focus release.
Pointer focus handling `focus.js`, `docs/demo/focus.js`	Installed listeners track pointer and keyboard input. Eligible controls release focus after pointer clicks, range drags, or select changes, with keyboard scopes and unrelated active controls excluded.
Playback integration and loading `app.js`, `docs/demo/app.js`, `index.html`, `docs/demo/index.html`, `docs/demo/sync.js`, `test/focus.test.js`, `CHANGELOG.md`	The editor and demo check focus eligibility before the general Space shortcut, then release focus and toggle playback when eligible. Both pages load the focus module, the demo sync list includes it, and tests check source order and script loading. The changelog records the keyboard behavior and exceptions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Editor as app.js
  participant Focus as FableCutFocus
  participant Transport
  Editor->>Focus: Check active control with spaceShouldPlay
  Focus-->>Editor: Return playback eligibility
  Editor->>Focus: Release active control focus
  Editor->>Transport: Toggle playback

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The title "Editor: Space plays after you click a button, select or slider" matches the main change. The raw summary and PR objectives describe focus.js, which releases focus from click controls after pointer use so Space toggles playback. The title names the scope (button, select, slider) and the behavior. It is specific and does not list files or use vague terms.

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Cover the click-release path with a test that calls install.

The tests call release directly. They do not run the click listener in install that releases a clicked control. A regression in that listener would pass every test, and the PR's main behavior would break silently. A test that fires pointerdown, focusin and click through a stub win/doc covers this path. It does not duplicate existing coverage.

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+function target() {
+  const handlers = {};
+  return {
+    activeElement: null,
+    addEventListener(type, fn) { (handlers[type] ||= []).push(fn); },
+    fire(type, ev = {}) { for (const fn of handlers[type] || []) fn(ev); },
+  };
+}
+
+test("install(): a pointer click gives focus back to the page", () => {
+  const win = target(), doc = target();
+  F.install(win, doc);
+  const b = el("button");
+  doc.activeElement = b;
+  win.fire("pointerdown");
+  doc.fire("focusin", { target: b });
+  win.fire("click", { target: b });
+  assert.equal(b.blurred, true);
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Add a test that exercises the click-release path through F.install rather than
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Document the new FableCutFocus API.

This change exports FableCutFocus as a browser global and a CommonJS module. Neither CLAUDE.md nor the English README.md describes the new API. Add the API and its focus behavior to both documents in this change. As per coding guidelines: “If a schema, prop, text animation, API, or MCP surface changes, update CLAUDE.md and the English README.md in the same change.” (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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- Line 19127: Update the Space-key handling around toggleTransportPlay() to mark
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until keyup. Preserve the existing playback toggle for the initial press and
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Review follow-ups (CodeRabbit on ronak-create#152): - A control reached with Tab, or inside a dialog / popover, now gets the browser's own Space (press / open). Before, the plain Space shortcut below the new check still caught it and played instead. - Holding Space plays or pauses once. Key repeats were toggling it on every repeat. - Clicking a select that already had keyboard focus (no new focusin) now counts as a mouse focus, so Space plays after that click. - test/focus.test.js drives install() through a stub window/document: the click-release path and the Tab-then-click case.

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Review follow-up (CodeRabbit on ronak-create#154): a <select multiple> or a <select size="n"> is a list box, worked from the keyboard (Space toggles an option, arrows move). isClickControl counted it as a dropdown, so Space after a click played the timeline and blurred it. Only single-choice dropdowns count now. The editor has no list boxes today; this keeps any future one working. Tested, including on the old code.

Review follow-ups (CodeRabbit on ronak-create#154): - A touch drag the browser cancels (it turned into a scroll) only cleared the drag state, so the slider kept focus and ←/→ moved it. pointercancel now ends the drag the same way pointerup does. - The arrow-key release for a mouse-focused select now skips a select whose themed list is open (class fc-open from select-menu.js), so the list keeps the arrows and aria-activedescendant stays on the focused select. After the list closes the class is gone and the arrows release it as before. Both are covered in the install() test; the cancel case fails on the previous commit.

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