Feature Spec UI: Doc Header

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Doc Titles:

• Document titles are displayed in the header. They scale down in size and truncate in cases where many documents are open or file names are excessively long.
• Multiple Doc Nav In cases where there are many open documents, you should be able to your mouse to the right or left edge of the header section containing the document titles and have it auto-scroll to be able to click on a document title to bring it to focus.
• Setting Active Doc Clicking on a document title will set it to focus, set it as the active document and populate the various panels appropriately (e.g. Layers)
• Dirty Docs When documents are changed or dirtied, an asterisk will appear to the left of the document name indicating it has changed.
• Unsupported Documents Those that are unsupported or contain unsupported layers (3D, video, non-RGB color modes such as CMYK, etc) will display a red exclamation to the left of the document name.

Search icon:

• Clicking this icon will bring up the search dialog (same behavior as Search menu command)

Mask Mode icon:

• The Vector Mask mode in Design Space allows users to create/edit/delete vector masks on Text, Group, Artboard, Smart Objects or Pixel layers.
• Clicking this icon will enable Mask Mode.
• Shortcut: 'm' with enter/exit Mask Mode.
• Icon will be blue when enabled/in Mask Mode.
• While in vector mask mode you can use the super select, rectangle, ellipse, or pen tool to modify your mask
• Ways to exit Mask Mode: Esc key, Delete key

Export icon:

• Clicking this icon opens the Export dialog.

Modifiers:

• Cmd/Ctrl + w closes the current document and remove that document tab from the header.
• Cmd/Ctrl + ` sets focus to the next document and brings it into view.

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