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  • Introduced GestureController to handle drag, pan, pinch, and wheel gestures.
  • Added KeyNavigationSpatialController for keyboard navigation with directional and zoom commands.
  • Updated ResizeHandle to utilize the new gesture controller for drag functionality.
  • Removed deprecated touch controller files and examples.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for drag, pan, pinch, wheel, and pointer interactions.
    • Added spatial keyboard navigation for directional movement and zoom.
    • Added a drag interaction demo.
  • Improvements

    • Enhanced resize-handle dragging with pointer input, cancellation, boundary handling, orientation, and right-to-left support.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for gestures, keyboard navigation, pointer dragging, lifecycle behavior, and event handling.

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The change adds gesture and spatial keyboard controllers, removes the touch controller, and migrates ResizeHandle to pointer-based drag gestures. Tests cover gesture recognition, keyboard commands, and pointer-driven resizing.

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Input controllers and ResizeHandle integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gesture controller recognition and lifecycle
projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.ts
Adds contracts and lifecycle management for drag, pan, pinch, wheel, and unhandled pointer input.
Gesture validation and example
projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.test.ts, projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.examples.ts
Adds gesture behavior tests and a drag example using GestureController.
Spatial keyboard controller and exports
projects/core/src/internal/controllers/keynav-spatial.controller.ts, projects/core/src/internal/controllers/keynav-spatial.controller.test.ts, projects/core/src/internal/index.ts
Adds directional and zoom commands. Exports the new controllers and removes the touch-controller export.
ResizeHandle pointer-drag migration
projects/core/src/resize-handle/*, projects/core/src/internal/controllers/type-touch.controller.*, projects/core/src/index.test.lighthouse.ts
Replaces touch handling with pointer drag handling, removes the touch controller, updates tests, and raises Lighthouse size thresholds.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f93c4

Secondary-button gesture events may reach descendant listeners instead of being consumed at the pan boundary, causing inconsistent interaction behavior in affected cases. The change remains mergeable with explicit owner awareness and a bounded follow-up to handle auxclick consistently.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PointerTarget
  participant GestureController
  participant ResizeHandle
  PointerTarget->>GestureController: Send pointer events
  GestureController->>GestureController: Recognize drag gesture
  GestureController->>ResizeHandle: Dispatch nve-gesture
  ResizeHandle->>ResizeHandle: Update value and active state
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In `@projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.ts`:
- Around line 147-151: Forward pointercancel to drag-state consumers after
GestureController cleanup by adding it to UnhandledPointerInput in
projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.ts:147-151. In
projects/core/src/resize-handle/resize-handle.ts:129-136, call `#cancelDrag`() for
the matching cancellation; in
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remove data-active on cancellation. Add assertions in
projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.test.ts:205-229 and
projects/core/src/resize-handle/resize-handle.test.ts:200-213 covering delivery,
restored configured step, removed active state, and subsequent drag support.

In `@projects/core/src/internal/controllers/keynav-spatial.controller.ts`:
- Line 44: Update the target check in the keydown handling logic to inspect the
original event source via event.composedPath()[0] instead of the retargeted
event.target, so shadow descendants are ignored while direct host events still
dispatch nve-key. Add a regression test that dispatches a composed keydown from
a shadow child and verifies no host navigation command is emitted.
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In `@projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.ts`:
- Around line 21-54: Add concise documentation comments for the exported
GestureCapabilities, Gesture, and UnhandledPointerInput contracts, including
each capability’s meaning, movementX/movementY units, pinch scale semantics and
constraints, wheel deltaPixels units, and the pointer events represented as
unhandled. Document the relevant members without changing their types or
behavior.
- Around line 232-255: Update `#startPinchIfNeeded` and `#handlePinch` to create or
store the pinch baseline only when distance is greater than zero; do not
initialize `#pinch` with a zero distance, preventing subsequent scale calculations
from dividing by zero.
- Around line 133-141: Update `#handleWheel` and normalizeWheelDelta so the
target’s bounding-rectangle height is obtained lazily only when event.deltaMode
is DOM_DELTA_PAGE; preserve existing normalization for pixel and line modes
while avoiding getBoundingClientRect() on those paths.

In `@projects/core/src/resize-handle/resize-handle.test.ts`:
- Line 132: Complete the dangling expect calls at the active-state checks in the
resize-handle tests, including the assertions around element.matches at both
locations. Add a matcher that asserts the boolean result is true so the active
state is actually verified.

In `@projects/core/src/resize-handle/resize-handle.ts`:
- Around line 129-136: Update `#handlePointerInput` so `#dragStart` is invoked only
for pointerdown events with button === 0 and isPrimary true; preserve the
existing drag-pointer filtering and pointerup/pointercancel handling.
- Around line 151-156: Update `#dragMove` to clamp the accumulated `#offset` to the
configured min/max value range after applying each movement, before calling
`#setInput`. Preserve the existing orientation and RTL movement calculation, and
ensure subsequent drags remain responsive at either boundary.
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- Introduced `GestureController` to handle drag, pan, pinch, and wheel gestures.
- Added `KeyNavigationSpatialController` for keyboard navigation with directional and zoom commands.
- Updated `ResizeHandle` to utilize the new gesture controller for drag functionality.
- Removed deprecated touch controller files and examples.

Signed-off-by: Cory Rylan <crylan@nvidia.com>
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In `@projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.ts`:
- Around line 6-14: Update GESTURE_EVENT_TYPES to include auxclick, route it
through `#handleClick` and consumePanBoundaryEvent, and ensure
UnhandledPointerInput is emitted only for click events. Modify the relevant test
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Comment on lines +6 to +14
const GESTURE_EVENT_TYPES = [
'click',
'contextmenu',
'pointercancel',
'pointerdown',
'pointermove',
'pointerup',
'wheel'
] as const;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🌐 Web query:

Does the click event fire for the secondary mouse button, or does auxclick fire instead, in Chrome and Firefox?

💡 Result:

In modern web standards and current versions of Chrome and Firefox, the click event fires only when the primary mouse button is clicked [1][2]. For non-primary mouse buttons (such as the middle or right buttons), the auxclick event is fired instead of the click event [1][3]. This behavior aligns with the UI Events specification, which restricts the click event to the primary button [2][4][5]. Historically, some browsers previously fired the click event for all mouse buttons, but they have been updated to separate these concerns to give developers better control over input handling without requiring manual checks of the MouseEvent.button property [1][2]. When using a standard mouse: - Left (primary) click: Fires the click event [1][6]. - Middle, Right, or other auxiliary clicks: Fire the auxclick event [1][3][7]. Developers should listen for auxclick to handle non-primary button interactions [1][3]. If you need to support older environments or ensure compatibility, you can check the MouseEvent.button property within a click handler (where 0 indicates the primary button) [1][8].

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Route auxclick through the pan boundary handler.

For secondary-button input, current Chrome and Firefox dispatch auxclick instead of click. Because GESTURE_EVENT_TYPES omits auxclick, #handleClick never calls consumePanBoundaryEvent, so descendant listeners receive the event. Add auxclick to the listener list and emit UnhandledPointerInput only for click. Update the test to dispatch auxclick.

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In `@projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.ts` around lines 6
- 14, Update GESTURE_EVENT_TYPES to include auxclick, route it through
`#handleClick` and consumePanBoundaryEvent, and ensure UnhandledPointerInput is
emitted only for click events. Modify the relevant test to dispatch auxclick
while preserving the existing pan-boundary behavior.

Apply the same fix in
`@projects/core/src/internal/controllers/gesture.controller.ts` around lines 21 -
54.

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