Each pure module's UMD wrapper assigned window.FlowchartXxx only in the else branch — when 'module' was undefined. But the renderer runs with nodeIntegration:true, so 'module' is always truthy and the else branch never ran. The standalone Flowchart Generator window then aborted with 'Flowchart pure modules not loaded'.
Fix: append 'if (typeof window !== undefined) window.FlowchartXxx = exported;' after the CommonJS branch in all 4 pure modules (store, shapes, mermaid, canvas). Both branches can run now; the legacy sidebar panel still loads them via require() and the renderer unconditionally exposes the global.
Regression guard: 4 new source-grep tests in tests/flowchart-controller.test.js assert each module's source contains the 'window.FlowchartXxx = exported' assignment.
Attribution: Amit Haridas
Five fix rounds (v4.9.1 → v4.9.5) couldn't make the sidebar flowchart
panel feel right — at 280 px sidebar with canvas + preview cramped to
~175 px each, plus the editor-container hide/show dance the
maximize/restore toggle required, the panel kept presenting as
cramped and unreliable at runtime. Strategy pivot: the flowchart
editor now lives in its own BrowserWindow, matching the ASCII Art
Generator pattern.
- src/flowchart-generator.html — new standalone HTML with header,
toolbar (Insert at Cursor / Reset), canvas host, and preview host.
Stylesheet hrefs are src/-relative (no ../). Forced light surface
via background/color !important rules — mirrors the v4.9.5 CSS fix.
- src/renderer/flowchart-controller.js — pure browser IIFE. Hydrates
from <userData>/flowchart-session.json once on mount, persists on
every mutation with 500 ms debounce. Insert at Cursor wraps the
generated Mermaid source in a fenced ```mermaid block and sends
it through the existing insert-content IPC.
- src/main.js — openFlowchartGenerator() launches the standalone
BrowserWindow (1100×720, contextIsolation:true, nodeIntegration:false).
Tools menu entry 'Flowchart Generator' with Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+F.
- src/preload.js — new window.electronAPI.flowchart.* namespace with
getUserDataPath/readFile/writeFile/insertAtCursor, reusing the
existing thin text-file IPC handlers.
- The four pure modules (flowchart-shapes.js, flowchart-mermaid.js,
flowchart-store.js, flowchart-canvas.js) gained a tiny UMD wrapper
so they work both as CommonJS (legacy sidebar) and as browser
globals (standalone window). No behavioural change to the 73
flowchart unit tests in tests/flowchart-*.test.js.
- src/renderer.js — sidebar registerPanel('flowchart', ...) and the
commandPalette entry are now commented out. Legacy panel file
(src/sidebar/flowchart-panel.js) preserved for rollback.
Tests:
- tests/flowchart-controller.test.js — 10 new tests covering
stylesheet paths (no ../ escape), bootstrap wiring
(getUserDataPath once, reads flowchart-session.json), hydration
from a saved session, Insert-at-Cursor fenced block format,
Reset (with and without confirm), and two regression tests that
src/renderer.js no longer has a live sidebar registration.
All 1122 tests pass; lint + format clean.
Amit Haridas
v4.9.4 shipped three interaction bugs in the Flow Chart panel that combined to make it look broken at runtime: (1) .flowchart-preview-render had no min-height, so the Mermaid SVG clipped to 0 when the sidebar flex column shrank; (2) the canvas + preview hosts inherited the body.theme-concreteinfo dark theme, producing dark-on-dark nodes; (3) .flowchart-node.selected only set a 2px stroke on the rect's existing dark fill, which was effectively invisible.
Fix: styles-sidebar.css adds min-height: 120px on .flowchart-preview-render; forces a light background on .flowchart-canvas-host / .flowchart-preview-host with !important so theme inheritance cannot override it; forces explicit white fills and dark strokes on .flowchart-node rect/polygon/text and .flowchart-edge so labels read against any background; selection now changes fill (#e3f0ff) AND bumps stroke-width to 3 on both nodes and edges. renderer.js renderFlowChartMermaid now always initializes Mermaid with theme: 'default' regardless of body class — keeps the Mermaid SVG light to match the CSS-forced canvas surface.
Three new CSS regression tests in tests/flowchart-panel.test.js read the shipped stylesheet and assert the three structural invariants (non-zero min-height on render target, !important light background on canvas+preview hosts, fill + stroke-width >= 3 on .flowchart-node.selected).
Tradeoff: the flowchart surface is now always light, diverging from body theme. Visibility of a working editor is the priority per user direction.
Amit Haridas
- Add opts.onNodeClick + surgical applySelectionHighlight() so node/edge clicks immediately paint .selected and mirror id into panel state (Delete/Backspace works on freshly-clicked node).
- Add Maximize/Restore button to flowchart toolbar: toggles .main-content.flowchart-takeover which hides .editor-container and lets the canvas + preview split the full window width instead of the 280px sidebar.
- destroy() clears the takeover class so the editor stays usable after leaving the panel.
- 8 new tests in tests/flowchart-panel.test.js for selection wiring and takeover.
Amit Haridas
The flowchart preview pane accumulated raw Mermaid source when the user
fired several addNode mutations within the 250ms debounce window —
mermaid.run({nodes:[div]}) is async, so the previous render's
<div class="mermaid"> (still carrying the source text) sat in
.flowchart-preview-render when the next render cleared the target. The
first render's eventual element.innerHTML=svg landed on a detached node,
but the visible preview pane had a stack of stale <div class="mermaid">
elements carrying the source.
Fixed by switching renderFlowChartMermaid (src/renderer.js) to
replaceChildren() and adding a per-target WeakSet in-flight tracker so
the new render always starts from a clean slate and the previous render's
eventual innerHTML=svg is harmless on a detached node.
Added a second regression test that fires 7 mutations inside the debounce
with a renderMermaid mock that mimics mermaid.run's async innerHTML=svg
closure.
Amit Haridas
- src/ascii-generator.html line 7: ../fonts.css -> fonts.css (src/-relative;
fixes silent stylesheet miss — same class as the v4.9.0->v4.9.1 script-tag fix)
- src/renderer/ascii-controller.js: wire all 3 mode tabs, 18 template
buttons, and the 3 box form fields. setMode() toggles .active on tabs
and matching .mode-section. Templates route through the orchestrator's
template:<id> font namespace. Box mode renders text with single/double/
rounded/bold/ascii borders via a pure renderBox() helper. All 11 T9
behaviours preserved.
- tests/ascii-controller.test.js: 6 tests covering stylesheet path,
pure box renderer, mode-tab switching, and template button wiring.
- package.json 4.9.1 -> 4.9.2; README + UPDATES updated.
Amit Haridas
Export themes:
- Six presets in the export dialog (basic + advanced modes) for PDF/DOCX:
Default, Modern, Classic, Sepia, Minimal, Elegant
- PDF: LaTeX header (xcolor/titlesec) recolors headings, adds section
rules and colored links — core-TeX packages only, hex-literal only
(no injection surface)
- DOCX: styles.xml surgery recolors Heading1-6/Title/Subtitle/Hyperlink
and swaps heading/body fonts; verified end-to-end against a real
pandoc-produced docx
- Themes ride along in export presets (unknown ids fall back to Default)
Windows CI fixes:
- pdfjs standardFontDataUrl now a file:// URL (backslash paths failed
pdfjs's trailing-slash validation, breaking extractText/extractImages)
- sharp temp cleanup EPERM retries; path-separator assertions; pdfjs
test timeouts raised; batch suite testTimeout 30s
648/648 tests green; 4.7.1 linux+win artifacts rebuilt.
Bundle (v4.7.0):
- MarkItDown frozen to a single ~75MB per-platform binary (PyInstaller via
npm run bundle:markitdown; ML extras excluded) — built and verified
locally: HTML/XLSX/PDF conversions pass through the bundled binary, and
the app resolves bin/linux/markitdown first at runtime
- Packaging copies bundled markitdown alongside Pandoc for win/mac/linux;
FFmpeg/sharp/KaTeX/fonts were already bundled
Legal artifacts:
- THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md: complete license inventory of everything
distributed (binaries, npm runtime deps, fonts, embedded Python packages)
- SOURCES.md: GPL §3(b) written source offers for Pandoc 3.9.0.2,
ffmpeg-static's GPL build, and the PyInstaller bootloader; LGPL relinking
note for libvips
- third-party-licenses/: canonical GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1, MPL-2.0, Apache-2.0,
OFL-1.1, PSF-Python texts
- Help > Third-Party Notices & Licenses: in-app viewer for both documents
- README: 'Bundled Dependencies, Legal Notices & Credits' section
Hardening:
- download-tools.js now SHA-256 pins every artifact, verifies after
download AND against the cache on every run, and hard-fails on mismatch
(closes security finding D6)
Large tools intentionally not bundled (documented): LibreOffice,
MiKTeX/TeX Live, ImageMagick, PlantUML+JRE, Calibre.
637/637 tests green; lint clean; clean boot; bundled binary verified.
- File → Import with MarkItDown (Any Format)…: PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX,
Outlook .msg/.eml, EPUB, images, CSV/JSON/XML, ZIP (audio/OCR via the
[all] extras) — verified live against HTML, XLSX (our own exporter's
output), and PDF fixtures
- Command auto-resolution with caching: markitdown binary → python -m
markitdown → python3 -m markitdown
- SEC-1 argv discipline (execFile only, user paths never through a shell),
50MB cap, 120s timeout, sanitized errors that surface markitdown's own
"pip install 'markitdown[pdf]'" hints for missing format extras
- Output lands next to the source as <name>.md (numeric suffix, never
overwrites) and opens in a new tab; markitdown:available/convert IPC
allowlisted for renderer flows
- Help → Dependencies lists MarkItDown; README/UPDATES updated (v4.6.1)
12 new tests (629 green); lint clean; clean app boot
- AI Assistant plugin: multi-provider chat (OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama/LM Studio),
summarize/improve/translate commands, proofread via ai:analyze; calls
proxied through main so API keys stay out of the renderer
- Collaboration plugin: anchor-based comments in .comments/ sidecars with
drift detection and F8 navigation
- Local knowledge base: [[wiki-links]] with click-to-create + Backlinks panel
- Crash recovery: debounced session snapshots with restore prompt on launch
- Version history: pre-save snapshots, History panel with restore/diff/delete
- Real PDF encryption: swap pdf-lib for @cantoo/pdf-lib (probe-driven UI)
- XLSX export (native workbooks via JSZip), ODT headers/footers + page size
- Offline KaTeX (bundled CSS+fonts), local-first PlantUML rendering
- Editor: vim mode toggle, snippet Tab-expansion, zen word-goal setter,
writing heatmap, writing-studio panels wired with rail icons
- Quick Note global scratchpad (Ctrl+Alt+Q), markdownconverter:// deep links,
REPL first-run confirmation
- Fix: Ctrl+Shift+P collision, pandoc converter availability check, CLI
dangling --css/--reference-doc flags, dead converter button
8 new test suites; 613 tests green; lint clean
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