✨ Switch auto-width to auto-height on horizontal resize on text shapes

CHANGES.md

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 - New typography token type - font size token [Taiga #10938](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/us/10938)
 - Hide bounding box while editing visual effects [Taiga #11576](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/issue/11576)
 - Improved text layer resizing: Allow double-click on text bounding box to set auto-width/auto-height [Taiga #11577](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/issue/11577)
+- Improve text layer auto-resize: auto-width switches to auto-height on horizontal resize, and only switches to fixed on vertical resize [Taiga #11578](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/issue/11578)
 
 ### :bug: Bugs fixed
 

frontend/src/app/main/data/workspace/modifiers.cljs

@@ -847,3 +847,25 @@
           (if undo-transation?
             (rx/of (dwu/commit-undo-transaction undo-id))
             (rx/empty))))))))
+
+;; Pure function to determine next grow-type for text layers
+(defn next-grow-type [current-grow-type resize-direction]
+  (cond
+    (= current-grow-type :fixed)
+    :fixed
+
+    (and (= resize-direction :horizontal)
+         (= current-grow-type :auto-width))
+    :auto-height
+
+    (and (= resize-direction :horizontal)
+         (= current-grow-type :auto-height))
+    :auto-height
+
+    (and (= resize-direction :vertical)
+         (or (= current-grow-type :auto-width)
+             (= current-grow-type :auto-height)))
+    :fixed
+
+    :else
+    current-grow-type))

frontend/src/app/main/data/workspace/transforms.cljs

@@ -218,16 +218,23 @@
                                   (gpt/add resize-origin displacement)
                                   resize-origin)
 
+                  ;; Determine resize direction for grow-type logic
+                  resize-direction (cond
+                                     (or (= handler :left) (= handler :right)) :horizontal
+                                     (or (= handler :top) (= handler :bottom)) :vertical
+                                     :else nil)
+
+                  ;; Calculate new grow-type for text layers
+                  new-grow-type (when (cfh/text-shape? shape)
+                                  (dwm/next-grow-type (dm/get-prop shape :grow-type) resize-direction))
+
                   ;; When the horizontal/vertical scale a flex children with auto/fill
                   ;; we change it too fixed
                   change-width?
                   (not (mth/close? (dm/get-prop scalev :x) 1))
 
                   change-height?
-                  (not (mth/close? (dm/get-prop scalev :y) 1))
-
-                  auto-width-text?  (and (cfh/text-shape? shape) (= :auto-width (dm/get-prop shape :grow-type)))
-                  auto-height-text? (and (cfh/text-shape? shape) (= :auto-height (dm/get-prop shape :grow-type)))]
+                  (not (mth/close? (dm/get-prop scalev :y) 1))]
 
               (cond-> (ctm/empty)
                 (some? displacement)
@@ -242,11 +249,9 @@
                 ^boolean change-height?
                 (ctm/change-property :layout-item-v-sizing :fix)
 
-                (and auto-width-text? (or change-width? change-height?))
-                (ctm/change-property :grow-type :fixed)
-
-                (and auto-height-text? change-height?)
-                (ctm/change-property :grow-type :fixed)
+                ;; Set grow-type if it should change
+                (and new-grow-type (not= new-grow-type (dm/get-prop shape :grow-type)))
+                (ctm/change-property :grow-type new-grow-type)
 
                 ^boolean scale-text
                 (ctm/scale-content (dm/get-prop scalev :x)))))