Editor enhancements for a smoother workflow

Another week in the books, and the engineering team continues to keep digging into every nook and cranny of the product to ensure that working in Runway feels intuitive, with several quality of life fixes coming in hot this week.

Huge shoutout to Xavier and Shinjini for leading the charge on the following improvements!

Formula editing is safer

  • When you have focus on a formula pill in the editor, typing will not overwrite your formula value so you don't lose your work.
  • Better handling of trailing whitespace when writing formulas with numbers in them to not inadvertantly create drivers.
  • Made database columns easier to find in the formula search menu
  • Fixed a bug where users could enter a jumpy hover menu state when selecting drivers to add to a block near the bottom of a page.

Filtering is more usable

  • There's now auto-focus on the search input when opening a filter dropdown list: This lets you get right to searching for the values you want when filtering down your data.
  • More natural upranking of selected items in filter dropdowns: This lets you quickly keep an eye on what's currently selected in a filter, so nothing falls through the cracks.

Copy-paste works more reliably

  • Handle pasting in accounting-formatted values for "0" from Excel and other spreadsheet tools. Previously, these would mistakenly cause a type mismatch.
  • More reliable driver initialization in databases on copy-paste, as well as when opening the detail pane. This ensures that as soon as you want to interact with a driver, it's there for you.
  • Fixed a bug where copy-paste was not working when databases were "viewed as" a driver grid.
  • Fixed a bug where copy-paste in databases used to not paste values on both sides of "Last Close".

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